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The purpose of this study was to compare and examine effects of yoga and walking exercise on body composition, cardiovascular risk factors, biomarkers of aging, and stress hormones of obese elderly women, and to provide basic data for health promotion of obese elderly females. The subjects in this experiment were divided into the exercise group (n=15) and the control group (n=14). The results of the analyses (of body composition, cardiovascular risk factors, biomarkers of aging, and stress hormones) in the experiment are as follows Based on the above results, 16-week yoga and walking exercise applied in this experiment is effective for changes of body composition, reduction of cardiovascular risk factors, and increase of Melatonin and HE-S of obese elderly females. Therefore, it is considered that 16-week yoga and walking exercise treatment can be used to present basic educational data with respect to development of exercise program for elderly women.