ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2009
Swimming exercise: impact of aquatic exercise on cardiovascular health.
Review in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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34 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Asthma risk in young people who attended chlorinated swimming pools in early childhood.Revista paulista de pediatria : orgao oficial da Sociedade de Pediatria de Sao Paulo · 2025Pooled it
- Building the Foundation of Aquatic Literacy in 4-6 Years-Old Children: A Systematic Review of Good Pedagogical Practices for Children and Parents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Chronic Physiological Effects of Swim Training Interventions in Non-Elite Swimmers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2018Pooled it
- Intensity-dependent lipidomic dynamic regulation following acute swimming exercise.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Dynamic Metabolic Changes Driven by Exercise Intensity in Acute Swimming.Medicine and science in sports and exercise · 2025Trial
- High-intensity intermittent swimming improves cardiovascular health status for women with mild hypertension.BioMed research international · 2014Trial
- Kinetic Human Movement Ontology: a semantic terminology model to symbolically represent physiological movement.Scientific data · 2026Article
- Mechanisms of drowning in children: influence of cold shock response on repolarization patterns and arrhythmia burden in healthy children.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- Cold shock response in healthy children: reassessment and first comparison between cold and warm water immersion.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- Can resisted swimming exercise substitute for the protective effects of estrogen on cardiometabolic risk factors in obese postmenopausal rat model?Iranian journal of basic medical sciences · 2025Article
- The interplay of climate change and physical activity: Implications for cardiovascular health.American heart journal plus : cardiology research and practice · 2024Article
- Developing a computational representation of human physical activity and exercise using open ontology-based approach: a Tai Chi use case.Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics · 2024Article
- Hypothesized mechanisms of death in swimming: a systematic review.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2024Article
- Effects of 8 weeks parent-accompanied swimming on physical capacity and intelligence in preschool children.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- An Adaptive Pedaling Assistive Device for Asymmetric Torque Assistant in Cycling.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Variables e instrumentos para evaluar la salud mental en nadadores de competición: una revisión narrativa.F1000Research · 2023Review
- Supervised Exercise in Water: Is It a Viable Alternative in Overweight/Obese People with or without Type 2 Diabetes? A Pilot Study.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Effects of aquatic high-intensity interval training and moderate-intensity continuous training on central hemodynamic parameters, endothelial function and aerobic fitness in inactive adults.Journal of exercise science and fitness · 2022Article
- The Effect of Three-Year Swim Training on Cardio-Respiratory Fitness and Selected Somatic Features of Prepubertal Boys.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Bathing Water Quality Monitoring Practices in Europe and the United States.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
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Abstract
Swimming is an exercise modality that is highly suitable for health promotion and disease prevention, and is one of the most popular, most practiced and most recommended forms of physical activity. Yet little information is available concerning the influence of regular swimming on coronary heart disease (CHD). Exercise recommendations involving swimming have been generated primarily from unjustified extrapolation of the data from other modes of exercise (e.g. walking and cycling). Available evidence indicates that, similarly to other physically active adults, the CHD risk profile is more favourable in swimmers than in sedentary counterparts and that swim training results in the lowering of some CHD risk factors. However, the beneficial impact of regular swimming may be smaller than land-based exercises. In some cases, regular swimming does not appear to confer beneficial effects on some CHD risk factors. Moreover, swimming has not been associated with the reduced risks of developing CHD. Thus, extrapolation of research findings using land-based exercises into swimming cannot be justified, based on the available research. Clearly, more research is required to properly assess the effects of regular swimming on CHD risks in humans.
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