ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2022
Effects of Supervised Physical Exercise as Prehabilitation on Body Composition, Functional Capacity and Quality of Life in Bariatric Surgery Candidates: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.
- Evaluation of the Effect of the Pre-Operative Exercise Training on Weight Loss, Quality of Life, and Cardiopulmonary Parameter in Bariatric Metabolic Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Obesity surgery · 2024Pooled it
- Anthropometric, Functional, and Haemodynamic Changes in Bariatric Surgery Patients Within the Polish KOS-BAR Pathway: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Prognostic Impact of Osteopenia in Patients with Resectable Esophageal Adenocarcinoma: A Retrospective Study.Annals of surgical oncology · 2026Article
- Effects of Preoperative Exercise Interventions in Patients Undergoing Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Exercise training in metabolic and bariatric surgery: An overview of systematic reviews.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Review
- Physiotherapy in Prehabilitation for Bariatric Surgery-Analysis of Its Impact on Functional Capacity and Original Predictive Models of Functional Status Outcome.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- The bariatric frailty score as a superior scoring system compared to the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) score in prediction of serious complications after bariatric surgery procedures.Surgical endoscopy · 2025Article
- Multimodal Prehabilitation in Heart Transplant Recipients Improves Short-Term Post-Transplant Outcomes without Increasing Costs.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundPrehabilitation is a strategy used aiming to reduce the risk factors and complications of surgery procedures, but there is no consensus on the effectiveness of supervised physical exercise and its optimal prescription during this phase.
objectivesTo determine the effects of exercise prehabilitation on body composition, functional capacity and quality of life in candidates for bariatric surgery. SEARCH
methodsA search was conducted in PubMed, Web of Science, SciELO, Scopus, MEDLINE and CINAHL. SELECTION CRITERIA: Only randomized clinical trials that examined the effectiveness of supervised physical exercise were included. The main outcomes were body composition, functional capacity, quality of life and surgical outcomes. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS: Two researchers independently selected the literature, extracted the data and evaluated the risk of bias. A third researcher was consulted when a consensus was not reached. The risk of bias was assessed by the tool recommended by the Cochrane Collaboration, the quality of the evidence by GRADE, and to analyze the effects of prehabilitation on the primary objectives, RevMan software, version 5.3 was used. MAIN
resultsThe search resulted in 4550 articles, of which 22 met the eligibility criteria, leaving 5 articles selected for this review. One article was assessed as a high bias risk and four as an uncertain risk, which included 139 candidates for bariatric surgery. Most of the studies evaluated the body composition, functional capacity and quality of life; none reported surgical outcomes.
conclusionsSupervised physical exercise has positive effects on the body composition, functional capacity and quality of life; there was no evidence for surgical outcomes, which opens up a field of study for future research of this population.
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