ArticleJournal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle2021
The physiological impact of high-intensity interval training in octogenarians with comorbidities.
Article in Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis 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.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Exercise interventions of ≥8 weeks improve body composition, physical function, metabolism, and inflammation in older adults with stageFrontiers in nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Molecular mechanisms underpinning favourable physiological adaptations to exercise prehabilitation for urological cancer surgery.Prostate cancer and prostatic diseases · 2024Trial
- Equipment-free, unsupervised high intensity interval training elicits significant improvements in the physiological resilience of older adults.BMC geriatrics · 2022Trial
- Aldehyde Oxidase 1 Deficiency Enhances Aerobic Exercise Performance by Promoting Skeletal Muscle Adaptation and Improving Mitochondrial Function.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2025Article
- Enhancing active aging through exercise: a comparative study of high-intensity interval training and continuous aerobic training benefits.Frontiers in aging · 2025Review
- Exercise and nutrition benefit skeletal muscle: From influence factor and intervention strategy to molecular mechanism.Sports medicine and health science · 2024Review
- Skeletal muscle dysfunction with advancing age.Clinical science (London, England : 1979) · 2024Review
- Periodized Aerobic Training between Thresholds Improves Submaximal Cardiorespiratory Parameters in Octogenarians.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- CT-derived measures of muscle quantity and quality predict poorer outcomes from elective colorectal surgery: a UK multicentre retrospective cohort study.Techniques in coloproctology · 2023Article
- High intensity interval training attenuates osteoarthritis-associated hyperalgesia in rats.The journal of physiological sciences : JPS · 2023Article
- Nicotinamide Phosphoribosyltransferase-elevated NADJournal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2023Article
- Article
- A mito-centric view on muscle aging and function.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Exercise-microbiota interactions in aging-related sarcopenia.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2022Article
- Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids and Exercise Training: Breaking the Myths and Dealing With Better Outcome in Sarcopenia.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Review
- Effects of Interval Exercise Training on Serum Biochemistry and Bone Mineral Density in Dogs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- The physiological impact of high-intensity interval training in octogenarians with comorbidities.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2021Article
- Aging, Osteo-Sarcopenia, and Musculoskeletal Mechano-Transduction.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
12 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundDeclines in cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and fat-free mass (FFM) with age are linked to mortality, morbidity and poor quality of life. High-intensity interval training (HIIT) has been shown to improve CRF and FFM in many groups, but its efficacy in the very old, in whom comorbidities are present is undefined. We aimed to assess the efficacy of and physiological/metabolic responses to HIIT, in a cohort of octogenarians with comorbidities (e.g. hypertension and osteoarthritis).
methodsTwenty-eight volunteers (18 men, 10 women, 81.2 ± 0.6 years, 27.1 ± 0.6 kg·m
resultsIn comorbid octogenarians, HIIT elicited improvements in CRF (anaerobic threshold: +1.2 ± 0.4 ml·kg
conclusionsThe HIIT enhances skeletal muscle mass and CRF in octogenarians with disease, with up-regulation of MPS and mitochondrial capacity likely underlying these improvements. HIIT can be safely delivered to octogenarians with disease and is an effective, time-efficient intervention to improve muscle mass and physical function in a short time frame.
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.