Background Regular physical activity improves overall health, and has the capacity to reduce risk of chronic diseases and death. However, better understanding of the relationship between multiple lifestyle risk behaviours and disease outcomes is pertinent for prioritising public health messagin...

Background: Neuropsychiatric symptoms are disorders frequently seen in Alzheimer's disease. These symptoms contribute to reduction of brain reserve capacity and, in addition, they present unfavorable implications, such as: poor prognosis for the disease, increased functional decline, increased b...

Aims/hypothesis: Low cardiorespiratory fitness is a powerful and independent predictor of mortality in people with diabetes. Several studies have examined the effects of exercise on cardiorespiratory fitness in Type 2 diabetic individuals. However, these studies had relatively small sample sizes ...

Background: Despite major advances in pharmacological treatment of chronic heart failure (CHF), a number of patients still suffer from dyspnoea, fatigue, diminished exercise capacity and poor quality of life. It is in this context that exercise training is being intensively evaluated for any a...

背景：太极拳是否有益于骨关节炎患者仍存在争议。我们进行了一项Meta分析，以评估太极拳运动对骨关节炎患者疼痛、僵硬和身体功能的有效性。 方法：对 PubMed 和 Embase（截至 2012 年 9 月）进行计算机检索，以确定相关研究。结果测量是疼痛、僵硬和身体机能。两名研究人员确定了符合条件的研究并独立提取数据。纳入研究的质量通过Jadad评分进行评估。使用随机效应模型计算和汇总标准平均差 (SMD) 和 95% 置信区间 (CI)。将结果从基线的变化与最小的临床重要差异进行比较。 结果：共有 7 项随机对照试验，涉及 348 名骨关节炎患者，符合纳入标准。平均 Jadad 得分...

Objective: To compare the effect of exercise regimens and medications on systolic blood pressure (SBP). Data sources: Medline (via PubMed) and the Cochrane Library Eligibility criteria: Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE-I), angiotensin-2 recept...

Purpose: To evaluate the impact of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) on health-related outcome parameters in the prehabilitation of patients diagnosed with cancer. Methods: A systematic review and meta-analysis of comparative studies on HIIT in cancer prehabilitation conducted by screening...

BACKGROUND: Depression is a distressing side effect of cancer and its treatment. In the general population, exercise is an effective antidepressant. OBJECTIVE: We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to determine the antidepressant effect of exercise in cancer survivors. DATA SOURCES: ...

Purpose of review: High-intensity exercise may beneficially impact on insulin sensitivity. However, there is still uncertainty on the actual impact of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) on chronic physiologic adaptations among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). We aimed to system...

The purpose of the study was to assess the effects of exercise interventions with different impact loading characteristics on lumbar spine (LS) and femoral neck (FN) bone mineral density (BMD) in older adults. We searched electronic databases and hand searched selected journals up to February 201...