Sex differences in exercise efficacy to improve cognition: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials in older humans
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"Sex differences in exercise efficac..." refers background or methods in this paper
...The effect of AT on episodic memory was assessed in 7 studies, with 2 high female studies [51; 55] and 5 low female studies [38; 56; 57; 61; 62], contributing a total of 12 effect sizes....
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...active balance and tone group [28; 29; 30; 38; 47; 48; 52; 58; 59; 72], 5 using a sedentary waitlist group [50; 51; 73; 76; 81], 12 using a sedentary group [55; 60; 62; 63; 65; 66; 67; 71; 74; 75; 78; 82], 7 using an health education group [57; 61; 69; 77; 79; 80; 83], 2...
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...Divergent mechanisms include increased hippocampal volume with AT [37; 38; 39], and increased cortical thickness in the posterior cingulate as well as reduced white matter lesion progression with RT [40; 41]....
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...the exercise intervention to increase fitness levels was objectively measured in 22 studies [29; 30; 38; 47; 50; 51; 53; 57; 58; 59; 60; 63; 64; 65; 66; 68; 70; 72; 76; 77; 80; 82]....
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...Of the final 39 papers included in the meta-analysis, 18 studies had an AT group [38; 47; 48; 49; 50; 51; 52; 54; 55; 56; 58; 59; 60; 61; 62; 63; 64; 65], 7 had a RT...
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"Sex differences in exercise efficac..." refers background or methods or result in this paper
...cardiovascular health and fitness and its effects on cognitive functioning and neuroplasticity have been widely studied in both humans and animals [1; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17]....
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...In a meta-analysis of 18 RCTs, Colcombe and Kramer [8] first suggested that women may show greater cognitive benefits from AT than men....
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...We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), CINAHL, and PsychInfo databases to identify all RCTs studying the effects of exercise on cognition....
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...This finding concurs with previous RCTs [8; 24; 25]....
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...suggested that longer interventions have greater impact on cognitive functioning [8]....
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