ArticleSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2017
Inter-Individual Responses of Maximal Oxygen Uptake to Exercise Training: A Critical Review.
Article in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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52 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 94 citations in OpenAlex.
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Abstract
It has recently been reported how to quantify inter-individual differences in the response to an exercise intervention using the standard deviation of the change scores, as well as how to appraise these differences for clinical relevance. In a parallel-group randomised controlled trial, the key trigger for further investigation into inter-individual responses is when the standard deviation of change in the intervention sample is substantially larger than the same standard deviation derived from a suitable comparator sample. 'True' and clinically relevant inter-individual differences in response can then be plausibly expected, and potential moderators and mediators of the inter-individual differences can be explored. We now aim to critically review the research on the inter-individual differences in response to exercise training, focusing on maximal oxygen uptake (VO
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