Aerobic Versus Resistance Exercise for Overweight: Is there a Difference in Reporting Quality?

In the management of overweight, the implementation of exercise helps to create a caloric deficit and to lose weight. Several studies have shown poor reporting quality of exercise interventions for other diseases. Thus, the purpose of this study was to assess the completeness of exercise intervention reporting in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) for the treatment of overweight and to evaluate potential differences between exercise modalities.

Community-based exercise enhanced by a self-management programme to promote independent living in older adults: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

Background: older adults face several modifiable barriers for engaging in physical activity (PA) programmes such as incontinence, loneliness and fear of falling. Enhancing PA programmes with behavioural components to support self-management of such barriers may increase the effectiveness to preserve functional capacity and independent living.

Objective: this study aimed at assessing the effects of a complex active lifestyle intervention (CALSTI) on objective and self-report measures of functional capacity and disability in community-dwelling older adults.

Relationship between physical frailty, nutritional risk factors and protein intake in community-dwelling older adults.

Background & Aims: Physical frailty may compromise physical function and reduce self-reliance in community-dwelling older adults. We investigated if nutritional risk factors and protein intake were associated with physical frailty in community-dwelling adults.

Methods: This cross-sectional study combined data from two studies in community-dwelling adults ≥65 years.

External auditory exostoses in wind-dependent water sports participants: German wind- and kitesurfers.

Purpose: Cold water and wind are known to cause exostoses of the external auditory canal. Different prevalences in different sports have been described in the literature. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of external auditory exostosis (EAE) and EAE severity in coastal German wind- and kitesurfers who are exposed to cold water and strong winds.