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ArticleJournal of sports science & medicine2007

Evaluating the effects of a low volume stairclimbing programme on measures of health-related fitness in sedentary office workers.

Rodney A Kennedy, Colin A G Boreham, Marie H Murphy, Ian S Young, Nanette Mutrie

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Article in Journal of sports science & medicine, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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26citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Workplace pedometer interventions for increasing physical activity.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020
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  3. Workplace interventions for reducing sitting at work.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018
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  4. Workplace interventions for reducing sitting at work.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018
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  5. Workplace interventions for reducing sitting at work.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016
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  6. Home-Based Stair Climbing as an Intervention for Disease Risk in Adult Females; A Controlled Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  17. Signage Interventions for Stair Climbing at Work: More than 700,000 Reasons for Caution.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rodney A KennedySchool of Sports Studies, University of Ulster , Jordanstown, County Antrim, UK.
Colin A G Boreham
Marie H Murphy
Ian S Young
Nanette Mutrie
University of Ulster · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite its obvious advantages, few studies have examined health outcomes of regular stariclimbing. In this study, we investigated the training effects of eight weeks of stairclimbing on recognised measures of health-related fitness in an occupational setting. Forty-five public sector employees (22 male, 23 female) aged 42.3 ± 9.0 years were randomly assigned to control (n = 16) or stairclimbing (n = 29) groups. Stairclimbing training began with 1 bout 5d·wk(-1) in week 1, increasing by one climb per day every two weeks until week 5, where a maintenance level of 3 climbs per day was reached. Participants climbed on staircases located within an 8 storey office block, consisting of 145 steps. The prescribed exercise intensity involved climbing the 8 flights of stairs at a rate of 75 steps·min(-1). All participants agreed not to change their diet or lifestyle over the experimental period. Relative to controls, the stairclimbing group showed a significant increase of 9.4% in predicted VO2max (p < 0. 05). No significant changes in blood pressure, blood lipid concentrations or body composition were noted. These findings provide evidence that stairclimbing can enhance an important component of health-related fitness, namely cardiovascular fitness. Given that such improvement resulted from less than 30 minutes per week of moderate exercise, stairclimbing in the workplace should be promoted as a health-enhancing physical activity. Key pointsLow volumes of stairclimbing significantly increased a key component of cardiorespiratory fitness, namely VO2max.Stairclimbing can therefore be promoted within the typical urban workplace as a health enhancing activity.Indices of morphological or metabolic fitness may require larger volumes of stairclimbing than as prescribed in the current study.

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dyslipidemiasExercise therapyoccupational healthphysical fitness

Identifiers

PMID24149477
PMCPMC3794484
OpenAlexW2166656577

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