Background: Osteoporosis causes bone fragility, increasing the risk of fractures. Evidence suggests a strong correlation between obesity and fracture risk. Physical training is known to enhance bone resistance and protect from fracture; however, its osteogenic effect in the presence of obesity re...

Aim: The study aimed to assess the effect of exercise intervention on the management of obese T2DM patients. Methods: The literature retrieval was conducted in relevant databases from their inception to 2015, with predefined searching strategy and selection criteria. The Cochrane Collaboration's...

Background Physical activity is an important part of the diabetes management plan. However, the effects caused by different training durations and styles of Tai Chi have not been evaluated. We conducted an updated systematic review of the effects of Tai Chi on patients with type 2 diabetes based...

Purpose: The effect of physical activity on glycemic variability remains controversial. This meta-analysis aimed to assess the overall effect of physical activity treatment on glycemic variability in patients with diabetes. Methods: PubMed/MEDLINE, Embase, and Cochrane databases were searched fo...

Physical activity and sedentary behaviour are associated with metabolic and mental health during childhood and adolescence. Understanding the interrelationships between these behaviours will help to inform intervention design. This systematic review and meta-analysis synthesized evidence from o...

Purpose: To estimate the strength and shape of the dose–response relationship between sedentary behaviour and all-cause, cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer mortality, and incident type 2 diabetes (T2D), adjusted for physical activity (PA).  Data Sources: Pubmed, Web of Knowledge, Medline, E...

Resistance and aerobic exercises are both recommended as effective treatments for people with type 2 diabetes. However, the optimum type of exercise for the disease remains to be determined to inform clinical decision-making and facilitate personalized exercise prescription. Our objective was to ...

This review aimed to determine longitudinal changes in objectively measured overall sedentary behaviour, and to examine their associations with adiposity in children and adolescents. A search for longitudinal studies was performed using several electronic databases. Of 161 potentially eligible pa...

Objective: The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate the effects of tai chi on metabolic control and body composition indicators in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis of existing literature. Methods: Electronic resource databases were...

Objective: To systematically synthesize and critically evaluate evidence on the effects of tai chi for pa-tients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.Data sources: Seven electronic databases (Wan Fang, SinoMed, China National Knowledge In-frastructure, VIP, PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library) were sys...