In the authors' words
“Exercise integrating different physical activities significantly increased lumbar spine (SMD, 0.170; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.027, 0.313; P = .019), femoral neck (SMD, 0.177; 95% CI: 0.030, 0.324; P = .018), total hip (SMD, 0.198; 95% CI: 0.037, 0.359; P = .016), and total body (SMD, 0.257; 95% CI: 0.053, 0.461; P = .014) BMD.”
What was measured
- Bone density Reported an improvement
About the study
- Type
- Meta-analysis
- Who took part
- Postmenopausal
- How many
- 1,061
- Exercise
- Aerobic plus resistance
- Cited
- 73 times, per Europe PMC
- PubMed ID
- 28257620
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