- Title
- Exercise Training Programs Improve Cardiorespiratory and Functional Fitness in Adults With Asthma: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS
- Creator
- Valkenborghs, Sarah R.; Anderson, Sophie L.; Scott, Hayley A.; Callister, Robin
- Relation
- Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention Vol. 42, Issue 6, p. 423-433
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/HCR.0000000000000698
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Purpose: This systematic review aimed to identify the characteristics and determine the effects of exercise interventions on improving health-related physical fitness in adults with asthma. Review Methods: A systematic search was completed in MEDLINE, CINAHL, Embase, and SPORTDiscus for peer-reviewed publications of experimental studies that investigated the effects of an exercise training intervention on performance-based health-related physical fitness outcomes in adults with asthma. Two reviewers independently screened studies for inclusion according to predetermined criteria and performed data extraction and quality assessment of included studies. Summary: Forty-five articles were included, in which results for 39 unique studies were reported. Subjects (n = 2135) were aged 22 ± 4 to 71 ± 11 yr with mild-severe asthma. Most exercise programs used aerobic exercise, either alone or in combination with resistance or breathing/stretching exercises. The most common exercise program characteristics were supervised moderate-to-vigorous intensity aerobic exercise performed for 30-45 min 3 d/wk. Meta-analyses revealed significant improvements in cardiorespiratory fitness (V˙o2peak: unstandardized mean difference [MD] 3.1 mL/kg/min, 95% CI, 1.9-4.3), functional fitness (walking distance: MD 41 m, 95% CI, 27-54), and overall health-related physical fitness (standardized mean difference [SMD] 0.67, 95% CI, 0.46-0.89) in favor of groups who underwent experimental exercise training interventions. Aerobic exercise elicited superior improvements in health-related physical fitness compared with breathing/stretching exercise (SMD 0.47, 95% CI, 0.14-0.81). Supervised exercise training programs, particularly those aerobic in nature, are effective in eliciting clinically meaningful improvements in cardiorespiratory and functional fitness in adults with asthma.
- Subject
- asthma; cardiorespiratory fitness; exercise; physical fitness; SDG 3; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1488325
- Identifier
- uon:52410
- Identifier
- ISSN:1932-7501
- Language
- eng
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