Association of Long-term Exercise Training With Risk of Falls, Fractures, Hospitalizations, and Mortality in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Long-term exercise benefits on prevalent adverse events in older populations, such as falls, fractures, or hospitalizations, are not yet established or known.

Objective

To systematically review and investigate the association of long-term exercise interventions (≥1 year) with the risk of falls, injurious falls, multiple falls, fractures, hospitalization, and mortality in older adults.

Data sources

PubMed, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, SportDiscus, PsychInfo, and Ageline were searched through March 2018.

Study selection

Exercise randomized clinical trials (RCTs) with intervention length of 1 year or longer, performed among participants 60 years or older.

Data extraction and synthesis

Two raters independently screened articles,

SUBMITTER: de Souto Barreto P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6439708 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature