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SynthesisSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2025

Changes in Cardiorespiratory Fitness Following Exercise Training Prescribed Relative to Traditional Intensity Anchors and Physiological Thresholds: A Systematic Review with Meta-analysis of Individual Participant Data.

Samuel J R Meyler, Paul A Swinton, Lindsay Bottoms, Lance C Dalleck, Ben Hunter, Mark A Sarzynski, David Wellsted, Camilla J Williams, Daniel Muniz-Pumares

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Synthesis in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Exercise-induced cardiac hypertrophy: cellular and molecular mechanisms of cardiac adaptation following physical activity.Postepy w kardiologii interwencyjnej = Advances in interventional cardiology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Samuel J R MeylerSchool of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, England, UK.
Paul A SwintonSchool of Health Sciences, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
Lindsay BottomsSchool of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, England, UK.
Lance C DalleckRecreation, Exercise and Sport Science Department, Western Colorado University, Gunnison, CO, USA.
Ben HunterSchool of Human Sciences, London Metropolitan University, London, UK.
Mark A SarzynskiDepartment of Exercise Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.
David WellstedSchool of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, England, UK.
Camilla J WilliamsSchool of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Daniel Muniz-PumaresSchool of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, England, UK. d.muniz@herts.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-6748-9870

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundIt is unknown whether there are differences in maximal oxygen uptake (

objectivesThe present meta-analysis sought to compare: (a) mean change in

methodsElectronic databases were searched, yielding data for 1544 individuals from 42 studies. Two datasets were created, comprising studies with a control group ('controlled' studies), and without a control group ('non-controlled' studies). A Bayesian approach with multi-level distributional models was used to separately analyse

resultsIn controlled studies, mean

conclusionPrescribing exercise intensity using THR approaches elicited superior mean changes in

Indexed as

Cardiorespiratory FitnessExerciseOxygen ConsumptionPhysical Conditioning, HumanBayes TheoremHumans

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