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The study was a randomized, wait-listed, controlled clinical trial that began gyms queens enrolling in gyms queens 1995 prior to the widespread use of HAART. the last subject completed the exercise protocol in 1998. Study subjects were HIV infected adults recruited from the Infectious Disease Clinic and an associated AIDS Clinical trials Unit at a large midwestern academic medical center and from local service & social groups of HIV infected persons. 60 adults were randomized to the exercise or no exercise arms with CD4s 200-500. The exercise group completed a 12 week supervised exercise program. Control subjects continued usual activity gyms queens and were enrolled in program after 12 weeks. RESULTS: 49 (82%) subjects completed the initial 12 weeks of the study: 19 exercise subjects and 30 no-exercise subjects. The exercise subjects participated in a minimum of 28 (78%) of the possible 36 sessions. The exercise intervention did have a significant effect on weight, BMI, triceps skinfold, sum of the central skinfolds, sum of the peripheral skinfolds, circunfrance of the abdomen at the abdominal girth, and waist-to-hip ratio after controlling for the initial baseline values and covariates.
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