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May 31

Exercise bad for some healthy people, study finds

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Could exercise be bad for some healthy people?

Researchers, including one who helped write the scientific paper justifying national guidelines that promote exercise for all, say the answer may be a qualified yes.

By analyzing data from six exercise studies involving 1,687 people, the researchers found about 10 percent got worse on at least one of the measures related to heart disease: blood pressure and levels of insulin, HDL cholesterol or triglycerides.

About 7 percent got worse on at least two measures.

And the researchers say they do not know why.

"It is bizarre," said Claude Bouchard, lead author of the paper, published Wednesday, May 30, in PLoS One, and a professor of genetics and nutrition at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, part of the Louisiana State University system.

Dr. Michael Lauer, director of the Division of Cardiovascular Sciences at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the lead federal research institute on heart disease and strokes, was among the experts not involved in the provocative study who applauded it.

"It is an interesting and well done study," he said.

Others worried about its consequences.

"There are a lot of people out there looking for any excuse not to exercise," said William Haskell, emeritus professor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research Center. "This might be an excuse for them to say, 'Oh, I must be one of those 10 percent.' "

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