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A systematic review of the effects of different types of therapeutic exercise on physiologic and functional measurements in patients with HIV/AIDS

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Title
A systematic review of the effects of different types of therapeutic exercise on physiologic and functional measurements in patients with HIV/AIDS
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Clinics, August 2013
DOI 10.6061/clinics/2013(08)16
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Mansueto Gomes-Neto, Cristiano Sena Conceição, Vitor Oliveira Carvalho, Carlos Brites

Abstract

Several studies have reported the benefits of exercise training for adults with HIV, although there is no consensus regarding the most efficient modalities. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of different types of exercise on physiologic and functional measurements in patients with HIV using a systematic strategy for searching randomized controlled trials. The sources used in this review were the Cochrane Library, EMBASE, MEDLINE, and PEDro from 1950 to August 2012. We selected randomized controlled trials examining the effects of exercise on body composition, muscle strength, aerobic capacity, and/or quality of life in adults with HIV. Two independent reviewers screened the abstracts using the Cochrane Collaboration's protocol. The PEDro score was used to evaluate methodological quality. In total, 29 studies fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Individual studies suggested that exercise training contributed to improvement of physiologic and functional parameters, but that the gains were specific to the type of exercise performed. Resistance exercise training improved outcomes related to body composition and muscle strength, with little impact on quality of life. Aerobic exercise training improved body composition and aerobic capacity. Concurrent training produced significant gains in all outcomes evaluated, although moderate intensity and a long duration were necessary. We concluded that exercise training was shown to be a safe and beneficial intervention in the treatment of patients with HIV.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
South Africa 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 152 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 28 18%
Student > Bachelor 25 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 13 8%
Student > Postgraduate 9 6%
Other 28 18%
Unknown 35 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 51 33%
Nursing and Health Professions 19 12%
Sports and Recreations 18 12%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 5%
Psychology 4 3%
Other 12 8%
Unknown 43 28%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 December 2015.
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#6,265,309
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Outputs from Clinics
#228
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#49,696
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Outputs of similar age from Clinics
#7
of 28 outputs
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