In the authors' words
“Combined exercise showed the highest efficacy (surface under the cumulative ranking curve [SUCRA] = 93.5%), followed by flexibility exercise (SUCRA = 76%), and these exercises also showed a positive effect on women's quality of life (SMD = 0.49; 95% CI [0.13, 0.84]; p = 0.007).”
What was measured
- Sleep Reported an improvement
- Quality of life Reported an improvement
About the study
- Type
- Meta-analysis
- Who took part
- Midlife women
- Exercise
- Aerobic plus resistance, Stretching, Other aerobic exercise, Yoga
- Cited
- 1 times, per Europe PMC
- PubMed ID
- 40575963
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