Chronic Physical Exercise Prevents Age-related Decline in Antioxidant Status and Endothelium-dependent Vasodilation in Healthy Men

摘要

By studying a group of young and older healthy individuals who were both endurance-trained and sedentary, we demonstrated that regular physical activity can attenuate the age-induced endothelial dysfunction, probably by the restoration of NO availability consequent to the prevention of production of oxidative stress.