ReviewBMC women's health2024
The impact of physical activity and exercise interventions on symptoms for women experiencing menopause: overview of reviews.
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- 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
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- Exercise and Brain Health in Postmenopausal Women: A Review of Cognitive Benefits, Mechanisms, and Neurodegeneration Prevention.NeuroSci · 2026Review
- Body roundness index and a body shape index and their associations with menopausal symptoms: a comparative cross-sectional study.BMC women's health · 2026Article
- Co-designing a culturally appropriate mHealth physical activity intervention for midlife women experiencing menopause in Saudi Arabia: stakeholder recommendations.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Could walking football improve women's quality of life throughout the menopause? An exploration of perimenopausal walking footballers in Scotland.BMC women's health · 2025Article
- Effects of Barefoot Walking on Menopausal Symptoms, Sleep Quality, Stress, and Quality of Life in Middle-Aged Women Experiencing Menopausal Symptoms.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Exploring the relative importance of the factors associated with menopausal symptoms using a random forest model: a cross-sectional study.Women's health nursing (Seoul, Korea) · 2025Article
- Levels of physical activity in a large international cohort of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.Lupus science & medicine · 2025Article
- Menopausal hormone therapy and exercise on psychosocial well-being and stress in menopausal women.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundWomen experiencing problematic menopausal symptoms report lower health-related quality of life and greater healthcare use than women without symptoms. Not all women want to or are able to take hormone replacement therapy. Strengthening the evidence for menopause symptom-management options, including physical activity, improves agency for women.
aimThis overview assesses effectiveness of physical activity and exercise interventions targeting women experiencing menopause symptoms.
methodsMedline, Embase, CINAHL, Scopus, The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and Social Science Citation Index were searched (June 2023) for systematic reviews of physical activity and exercise interventions targeting women experiencing menopause. Reviews were assessed using AMSTAR-2 and a best-evidence approach to synthesis without meta-analysis (SWIM) was adopted. The protocol was registered on PROSPERO (CRD42022298908).
resultsSeventeen reviews included 80 unique relevant primary studies with 8983 participants. There is evidence showing improvement of physical, urogenital, and total symptoms following yoga interventions. Evidence for vasomotor and psychological symptoms was inconclusive. Findings for aerobic exercise were inconclusive although there were some examples of beneficial effects on total and vasomotor symptoms. Evidence was very limited for other types of physical activity and impact on physical, sexual and urogenital symptoms.
conclusionThere is some evidence that yoga, and to lesser extent, aerobic exercise may be beneficial for some menopause symptoms, but there is insufficient evidence to recommend a particular form of exercise. Current reviews categorise women on menopause status; broadening this to include ethnicity, income status, employment and other factors will allow better understanding of context for successful interventions.
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