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ReviewEuropean journal of clinical nutrition2018

Exercise, energy balance and body composition.

Klaas R Westerterp

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Review in European journal of clinical nutrition, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 76 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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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

76 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  5. 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 · 2021
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  13. The Preconception Health and Health Behaviors of Australian First-Time Fathers: A Cross-Sectional Study.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Klaas R WesterterpNUTRIM, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands. k.westerterp@maastrichtuniversity.nl.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Activity-induced energy expenditure, as determined by the activity pattern including exercise, is the most variable component of daily energy expenditure. Here, the focus is on effects of exercise training on energy balance and body composition in subjects with a sedentary or light-active lifestyle. Then, exercise training induces an energy imbalance consistently lower than prescribed energy expenditure from exercise. Additionally, individual responses are highly variable and decrease in time. Combining the results from 23 exercise training studies in normal-weight, overweight, and obese subjects, varying in duration from 2 to 64 weeks, showed an average initial energy imbalance of about 2 MJ/day with an exponential decline to nearly zero after about 1 year. A compensatory increase in energy intake is the most likely explanation for the lower than expected effect of exercise on energy balance. Overall, exercise training results in a healthier body composition as reflected by a reduction of body fat, especially in overweight and obese subjects, with little or no long-term effect on body weight.

Indexed as

Body CompositionEnergy MetabolismExerciseHumansNutritional Physiological Phenomena

Identifiers

PMID30185845
PMCPMC6125254

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