SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020
Exercise and Quality of Life in Women with Menopausal Symptoms: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.
Synthesis in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05122065 (Defining the Vaginal Microbiome and the Vaginal pH of Menopausal Women With and Without Genitourinary Syndrome and With and Without Hormone Replacement Therapy), which is not on this map. Cited by 31 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
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.
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.
Defining the Vaginal Microbiome and the Vaginal pH of Menopausal Women With and Without Genitourinary Syndrome and With and Without Hormone Replacement Therapy
Who cites it
31 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 125 citations in OpenAlex.
- Relationship between the severity of menopausal symptoms and quality of life during the menopause transition: a systematic review.Archives of women's mental health · 2026Pooled it
- Aromatherapy for the Management of Menopause Symptoms: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of caring sciences · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of different physiotherapy modalities on insomnia and depression in perimenopausal, menopausal, and post-menopausal women: a systematic review.BMC women's health · 2023Pooled it
- Effectiveness of face-to-face and web-based exercise programs on health outcomes in early postmenopausal women: a randomized trial.BMC women's health · 2026Trial
- Effects of exercise training on vasomotor symptoms and quality of life in postmenopausal women: a randomized controlled trial.BMC women's health · 2025Trial
- Trial
- Effects of jazz dance and concurrent training on psychological variables in menopausal women: A randomized controlled trial.Archives of women's mental health · 2025Trial
- A 2-year follow-up to a randomized controlled trial on resistance training in postmenopausal women: vasomotor symptoms, quality of life and cardiovascular risk markers.BMC women's health · 2024Trial
- Exercise and Brain Health in Postmenopausal Women: A Review of Cognitive Benefits, Mechanisms, and Neurodegeneration Prevention.NeuroSci · 2026Review
- Moving through menopause: a mixed methods study of UK women's experiences of being physically active during the menopause life stage.Menopause (New York, N.Y.) · 2026Article
- Unravelling the Association of Physical Exercise, Quality of Life and Sleep Quality Among Chinese Perimenopausal Women.International journal of women's health · 2026Article
- How the Intensity of Menopausal Symptoms Affects the Quality of Life in Menopausal Diabetic Women in Greece? A Cross-Sectional Study.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026Article
- Exploring women's experiences and needs during the climacteric to enhance positive mental health and self-care.Frontiers in global women's health · 2026Article
- Cognitive function, balance, and physical activity among perimenopausal and postmenopausal women: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in global women's health · 2026Article
- Quality of life and the associated factors among postmenopausal women during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study.Archives of women's mental health · 2025Article
- The effect of ginseng on sexual function in postmenopausal women with major depression: a triple-blind randomized controlled trial.Journal of pharmaceutical health care and sciences · 2025Article
- Effects of Physical Exercise on Symptoms and Quality of Life in Women in Climacteric: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Is concurrent training effective in the symptomatology of menopause, depression, sexual function, and the aging perspective of women during menopause? A randomised clinical trial.Przeglad menopauzalny = Menopause review · 2025Article
- Impact of Exercise on Perimenopausal Syndrome: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.Cureus · 2025Review
- Menopausal hormone therapy and exercise on psychosocial well-being and stress in menopausal women.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Menopausal symptoms are associated with deterioration in physical, mental, and sexual health, lowering women's quality of life (QoL). Our study objective is to examine the effect of exercise on QoL in women with menopausal symptoms. After initially identifying 1306 studies published on PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and Cochrane Library before June 2020, two researchers independently selected nine randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in which any type of exercise was compared with no active treatment. We assessed the risk of bias in the included studies using the Cochrane risk-of-bias 2.0 tool for RCTs and computed the converged standardized mean difference with a 95% confidence interval. We found evidences for the positive effects of exercise on physical and psychological QoL scores in women with menopausal symptoms. However, there was no evidence for the effects of exercise on general, social, and menopause-specific QoL scores. The most common interventions for women with menopausal and urinary symptoms were yoga and pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT), respectively. In our meta-analyses, while yoga significantly improved physical QoL, its effects on general, psychological, sexual, and vasomotor symptoms QoL scores as well as the effect of PFMT on general QoL were not significant. Our findings suggest that well-designed studies are needed to confirm the effect of exercise on QoL in women with menopausal symptoms.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.