Background: Meditation has been increasingly adapted for healthy populations and participants with diseases. Its beneficial effects are still challenging to determine due to the heterogeneity and methodological obstacles regarding medical applications. This study aimed to integrate the features o...

Increased attention has focused on methods to increase empathy, compassion, and pro-social behavior. Meditation practices have traditionally been used to cultivate pro-social outcomes, and recently investigations have sought to evaluate their efficacy for these outcomes. We conducted a systematic...

Objectives: This paper aimed to systematically review and meta-analyze the effectiveness of Tai Chi for osteoarthritis of the knee. Methods: MEDLINE, the Cochrane Library, EMBASE, Scopus, PsycInfo and CAMBASE were screened through April 2013. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing Tai C...

Recent literature suggests that resistance training (RT) improves peak oxygen uptake ([Formula: see text] peak), similarly to aerobic exercise (AE) in patients with heart failure (HF), but its effect on cardiac remodeling is controversial. Thus, we examined the effects of RT and AE on [Formula: s...

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BACKGROUND: The influence of exercise on cognition in patients undergoing haemodialysis has been examined. However, evidence elucidating the effects in this patient group is scarce. OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect of exercise on cognitive impairment in patients undergoing haemodialysis and provi...

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The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of exercise training on arterial stiffness in obese and overweight children. Three databases were searched up to July 2021 for papers about exercise training and arterial stiffness in obese and overweight children. The quality of each identified...

Context: Elevated serum concentrations of chemerin is a significant factor in the development of metabolic disorders. Objective: This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated the influence of exercise training on serum concentrations of chemerin in patients with metabolic diseases. Met...

Background : The symptoms of myocardial infarction (MI) patients become worse after the cardiac events and potentially affect their morbidity and mortality. Exercise- based cardiac rehabilitation is one of the interventions to improve recovery among the MI patients. While the effect of exercise- ...