SynthesisBMC women's health2023
Exercise interventions on body composition and quality of life of overweight/obese breast cancer survivors: a meta-analysis.
Synthesis in BMC women's health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 8 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effects of exercise interventions on bone health and body composition in postmenopausal women with breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Pooled it
- Combined Aerobic and Resistance Training Improves Body Composition, Alters Cardiometabolic Risk, and Ameliorates Cancer-Related Indicators in Breast Cancer Patients and Survivors with Overweight/Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Senescent obesity signature in breast cancer: a paradigm of reverse cardio-oncology.European heart journal · 2026Review
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- Cardiac autonomic dysfunction in patients with cancer: exploring the role of physical exercise.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2025Review
- Correction: Exercise interventions on body composition and quality of life of overweight/obese breast cancer survivors: a meta-analysis.BMC women's health · 2023Article
- Clinical and sociodemographic characteristics associated with health-related quality of life among older breast cancer survivors.Women's health (London, England)Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundThis meta-analysis aimed to assess the effects of exercise interventions on body composition and quality of life in overweight/obese breast cancer survivors.
methodsEligible randomized controlled trials (RCTs) were searched from the Cochrane Library, PubMed, and Embase databases and assessed using the Cochrane Collaboration's assessing risk tool. The effect size was pooled as weighted mean difference (WMD) for body composition variables (i.e., body mass index [BMI], body fat, body weight, fat mass, lean mass, bone mineral density) and quality of life (i.e., physical health and mental health), and the confidence interval (CI) was set as 95%. Since heterogeneity existed, subgroup analysis was conducted to detect the source of heterogeneity.
resultsEight articles from six RCTs containing 548 overweight/obese breast cancer survivors (BMI ≥ 25 kg/m
conclusionExercise intervention significantly decreased the body mass index and body fat of overweight/obese breast cancer survivors. The benefits of exercise interventions for overweight/obese breast cancer survivors need more evidence from high-quality RCTs with large sample sizes.
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