Clinical evidence dossier
Resistance training
Lean body mass
Evidence signal
Evidence signal
Moderate
This is an authoritative evidence signal supplied by Clinical Reference. It is not a formal clinical grade, treatment recommendation, or pooled effect estimate.
Evidence snapshot
- Authoritative support records
- 4
- Supporting studies available for review
- 4
- Randomized trials
- 3
- Reported effects
- 20
Clinical conclusion
Resistance training shows a strong positive evidence signal for improving Lean body mass across the studied comparisons.
The conclusion and evidence-signal classification are distinct authoritative fields and are reproduced as published.
Observed effects
Evidence composition
- Non-randomized studies
- 1
- Other designs
- 0
- Unresolved designs
- 0
- Magnitude-eligible effects
- 0
Consistency
Consistency classification
Consistent
- Positive
- 3
- No effect
- 0
- Mixed
- 0
- Negative
- 1
Population and applicability
Structured population data were available for 4 of 4 supporting studies. 2 studies described participants with type 2 diabetes. 3 studies described adult participants.
This population information refers to the materialized supporting studies available for review. Omitted support records remain part of the authoritative support accounting and are available through the audit experience.
View reported population descriptions
These descriptions are reported across the supporting studies; they are not a single synthesized population.
- Women aged 30-60 with type 2 diabetes.
- Individuals seeking to manage diabetes through lifestyle changes.
- Adults aged 18-65 with type 2 diabetes.
- Individuals looking for effective exercise interventions to manage diabetes.
- Older (60±5 yrs), overweight (BMI 33±4 kg/m²) adults with prediabetes (IFG, IGT, or combined IFG/IGT)
- Adults who have undergone Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery.
- Individuals seeking to manage weight post-surgery through exercise.
Limitations
- Evidence uses heterogeneous comparison contexts: baseline_within_group, usual_care.
- 1 supporting study has high, serious, critical, unclear, or unavailable risk-of-bias information.
- 3 of 4 studies with duration data have follow-up of 12 weeks or less.
Supporting evidence
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