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ReviewFrontiers in endocrinology2022

Exercise Therapy for People With Sarcopenic Obesity: Myokines and Adipokines as Effective Actors.

Hamed Alizadeh Pahlavani

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Review in Frontiers in endocrinology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 91 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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91citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

91 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 130 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hamed Alizadeh PahlavaniDepartment of Physical Education, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran.
Farhangian University · IR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sarcopenic obesity is defined as a multifactorial disease in aging with decreased body muscle, decreased muscle strength, decreased independence, increased fat mass, due to decreased physical activity, changes in adipokines and myokines, and decreased satellite cells. People with sarcopenic obesity cause harmful changes in myokines and adipokines. These changes are due to a decrease interleukin-10 (IL-10), interleukin-15 (IL-15), insulin-like growth factor hormone (IGF-1), irisin, leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF), fibroblast growth factor-21 (FGF-21), adiponectin, and apelin. While factors such as myostatin, leptin, interleukin-6 (IL-6), interleukin-8 (IL-8), and resistin increase. The consequences of these changes are an increase in inflammatory factors, increased degradation of muscle proteins, increased fat mass, and decreased muscle tissue, which exacerbates sarcopenia obesity. In contrast, exercise, especially strength training, reverses this process, which includes increasing muscle protein synthesis, increasing myogenesis, increasing mitochondrial biogenesis, increasing brown fat, reducing white fat, reducing inflammatory factors, and reducing muscle atrophy. Since some people with chronic diseases are not able to do high-intensity strength training, exercises with blood flow restriction (BFR) are newly recommended. Numerous studies have shown that low-intensity BFR training produces the same increase in hypertrophy and muscle strength such as high-intensity strength training. Therefore, it seems that exercise interventions with BFR can be an effective way to prevent the exacerbation of sarcopenia obesity. However, due to limited studies on adipokines and exercises with BFR in people with sarcopenic obesity, more research is needed.

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SarcopeniaAdipokinesAdipose Tissue, BrownExercise TherapyHumansInterleukin-6ObesityAdipokinesInterleukin-6adipokinesexercisemyokinesobesitysarcopenia

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PMID35250869
PMCPMC8892203
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