Trial reportInternational journal of obesity (2005)2014
Weight loss, exercise or both and cardiometabolic risk factors in obese older adults: results of a randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in International journal of obesity (2005), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06592209 (Body Electric), which is not on this map. Cited by 90 papers, 20 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Body Electric: a Pragmatic Trial Evaluating Movement Breaks As a Public Health Strategy to Mitigate the Harms of Prolonged Sedentary Behavior
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90 citing papers in PubMed, 20 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 154 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effects of concurrent training on fat mass and its distribution in individuals with overweight or obesity: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and exploratory regression analysis.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- Comparative efficacy of exercise modalities added to energy restriction on inflammatory markers in obesity: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Pooled it
- Interplay between frailty and cardiometabolic disorders: from pathophysiology to clinical implications.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophy on Fat Mass and Glucose Homeostasis in Humans and Animals: A Narrative Review with Systematic Literature Search.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Pooled it
- Effect of exercise on abdominal obesity and inflammatory response in the older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Pooled it
- Comparison of the impact of exercise training combined with dietary intervention vs. dietary intervention alone in patients with obesity and metabolic syndrome-a systematic review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Dose-response effects of exercise and caloric restriction on visceral adiposity in overweight and obese adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.British journal of sports medicine · 2023Pooled it
- The impact of exercise and dietary interventions on circulating leptin and adiponectin in individuals who are overweight and those with obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2023Pooled it
- Effect of exercise on cardiometabolic health of adults with overweight or obesity: Focus on blood pressure, insulin resistance, and intrahepatic fat-A systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Pooled it
- Impact of different training modalities on anthropometric outcomes in patients with obesity: A systematic review and network meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Pooled it
- Long-term effects of weight-reducing diets in people with hypertension.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Nutritional Advice for Community-Dwelling Obese Older Adults With Frailty: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Pooled it
- Safety and Effectiveness of Long-Term Exercise Interventions in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2020Pooled it
- Treatment of Diabetes in Older Adults: An Endocrine Society* Clinical Practice Guideline.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2019Guideline
- Weight Loss Interventions in Older Adults with Obesity: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials Since 2005.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2017Pooled it
- In middle-aged and old obese patients, training intervention reduces leptin level: A meta-analysis.PloS one · 2017Pooled it
- Effect of lifestyle interventions on glucose regulation among adults without impaired glucose tolerance or diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Diabetes research and clinical practice · 2017Pooled it
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- Long-term effects of weight-reducing diets in people with hypertension.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology.Nature · 2015 · on this mapPooled it
30 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundObesity exacerbates the age-related decline in insulin sensitivity and is associated with risk for cardiometabolic syndrome in older adults; however, the appropriate treatment for obese older adults is controversial.
objectiveTo determine the independent and combined effects of weight loss and exercise on cardiometabolic risk factors in obese older adults.
designOne-hundred and seven obese (body mass index (BMI)≥30 kg m(-2)) older (≥65 years) adults with physical frailty were randomized to control group, diet group, exercise group and diet-exercise group for 1 year. Outcomes for this study included changes in insulin sensitivity index (ISI), glucose tolerance, central obesity, adipocytokines and cardiometabolic syndrome.
resultsAlthough similar increases in ISI occurred in the diet-exercise and diet groups at 6 months, the ISI improved more in the diet-exercise than in the diet group at 12 months (2.4 vs 1.2; between-group difference, 1.2; 95% confidence interval, 0.2-2.1); no changes in ISI occurred in both exercise and control groups. The diet-exercise and diet groups had similar improvements in insulin area under the curve (AUC) (-2.9 and -2.9 × 10(3) mg min dl(-1)), glucose AUC (-1.4 and -2.2 × 10(3)mg min dl(-1)), visceral fat (-787 and -561 cm(3)), tumor necrosis factor (-17.0 and -12.8 pg ml(-1)), adiponectin (5.0 and 4.0 ng ml(-1)), waist circumference (-8.2 and -8.4 cm), triglyceride (-30.7 and -24.3 g dl(-1)) and systolic/diastolic blood pressure (-15.9 and -13.1/-4.9 and -6.7 mm Hg), while no changes in these parameters occurred in both exercise and control groups. The cardiometabolic syndrome prevalence decreased by 40% in the diet-exercise and by 15% in the diet group. Body weight decreased similarly in the diet-exercise and diet groups (-8.6 and -9.7 kg) but not in the exercise and control groups.
conclusionsIn frail, obese older adults, lifestyle interventions associated with weight loss improve insulin sensitivity and other cardiometabolic risk factors, but continued improvement in insulin sensitivity is only achieved when exercise training is added to weight loss.
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