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Trial reportChronic respiratory disease

The acute impact of resistance training on fatigue in patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis.

Anita Grongstad, Nina Køpke Vøllestad, Line Merethe Oldervoll, Martijn Arthur Spruit, Anne Edvardsen

Open access · goldAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Chronic respiratory disease. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Advances in management of sarcoidosis-associated fatigue: A narrative review.Sarcoidosis, vasculitis, and diffuse lung diseases : official journal of WASOG · 2026
    Article
  2. Rheumatic Manifestations of Sarcoidosis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
    Review
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Anita GrongstadLHL Hospital Gardermoen, Jessheim, Norway.ORCID 0000-0002-0582-3431
Nina Køpke VøllestadDepartment of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Line Merethe OldervollLHL Clinics, Trondheim, Norway.
Martijn Arthur SpruitDepartment of Research & Development, CIRO, Horn, The Netherlands.
Anne EdvardsenLHL Hospital Gardermoen, Jessheim, Norway.
University of Oslo · NOMaastricht University Medical Centre · NLNorwegian University of Science and Technology · NO

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fatigue is the most prevalent symptom among patients with sarcoidosis, and skeletal muscle dysfunction is a common clinical feature, making resistance training (RT) a recommended treatment strategy. Despite lacking knowledge regarding whether high-intensity RT will aggravate fatigue, low to moderate-intensity is routinely used even if the evidence for this protocol to improve muscle strength is inconclusive. This study aimed to investigate whether one single session of high-intensity RT induces a higher increase in fatigue than one single session of moderate-intensity RT. In this randomized crossover study, 41 patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis (age: 53 ± 11 yr) were recruited. They randomly performed one single session of high-intensity RT, 4 sets × 5 repetitions maximum (5RM), and one single session of moderate-intensity RT, 2 sets × 25 RM. Fatigue was assessed with the Visual Analogue Scale (0-100 mm) immediately before (T0), immediately after (T1) and 24 hours after (T2) each exercise session. Fatigue development from T0 to T1 was significantly lower after 5RM (-3 ± 18 mm) than after 25RM (5 ± 15 mm), p = 0.004. No difference was seen from T0 to T2 between 5RM (0 ± 17 mm) and 25RM (6 ± 18 mm), p = 0.147. The high-intensity 5RM session did not induce a larger increase in fatigue than the moderate-intensity 25RM session. RT appears feasible and safe in patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis irrespective of the intensity. Thus, the long-term effects of high-intensity RT on fatigue should be explored in a RT programme of longer duration.

Indexed as

Resistance TrainingSarcoidosis, PulmonaryAdultCross-Over StudiesFatigueHumansMiddle AgedMuscle, SkeletalMuscle Strengthexercise trainingmuscle strength trainingresistance trainingSarcoidosissarcoidosis-related fatigue

Identifiers

PMID33820449
PMCPMC7716061
OpenAlexW3107737800

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