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November 11, 2025BMC Sports Science Medicine and RehabilitationOpen Access

Effects of exercise training on systemic arterial pulse wave velocity in postmenopausal women: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

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YLYu-Hong LiNXNa XuFRFei-Fei Ren

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Meta-analysis shows exercise reduces arterial stiffness in postmenopausal women, suggesting benefits vary with intervention type and age.

Key Points

  • The study synthesizes evidence on exercise's impact on arterial stiffness in postmenopausal women, focusing on pulse wave velocity.
  • Systematic review of randomized controlled trials exploring exercise effects on PWV
  • Search of six databases including PubMed and Scopus until April 2025
  • Conducted a three-level meta-analysis using a random-effects model
  • Overall effect of exercise on systemic arterial pulse wave velocity was marginally significant (g = -1.07, p = 0.05)
  • Significant improvements noted in carotid-femoral PWV (g = -2.44) and central PWV (g = -1.57)
  • More pronounced results observed in participants < 65 years and those engaging in aerobic exercise

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Li et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69252e96c0ce034ddc356284https://doi.org/10.1186/s13102-025-01382-1
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