【Objectives】The purpose of the present study was to report the relationship between serum vitamins levels, mental mood state, and exercise for elderly people.
【Methods】We divided 26 community-living elderly people (age 69.4±3.8 years) of the South Nagano region into two groups in a random manner. The exercised-group carried out middle to hard level muscular training (Comprehensive geriatric training) during 3-months, while the control-group did their usual activities of daily living during the intervention. After the 3-month training period, we had all subjects complete the QOL survey (SF-36 v2) and took serum vitamins concentration levels. The serum vitamins that were measured were A, B1, C, D and E. This report was a cross sectional study.
【Result】In regards to the 5 kinds of blood vitamins and 10 indexes of SF-36, there was not a significant difference confirmed between the control group and the exercise group. Subsequently, we carried out principal component analysis to focus on the serum vitamins levels. Two component patterns were identified. We labeled companent-1 to “fat-soluble vitamin” and companent-2 to “anti-oxidant vitamin” blood pattern, and calculated each component score. In the control group, serum anti-oxidant vitamin levels showed a significant positive correlation coefficient with some SF-36 indexes. Statistical process adjusting for gender indicated a similar result. However, a significant relationship was not seen in exercise group.
【Conclusion】Our data reported that it might be necessary to pay the attention of blood anti-oxidant vitamin concentration (vitamin C and/or vitamin E) by meal instruction etc., when we organized care preventive campaign for locally living elderly person.
