Exercise-based interventions for sarcopenic obesity in middle-aged and older adults: an umbrella review of systematic reviews with pairwise meta-analyses and network meta-analyses (opens in new tab)

IntroductionSarcopenic obesity (SO) is an increasingly important nutrition- and exercise-relevant phenotype in middle-aged and older adults, but the secondary evidence base is complicated by heterogeneous SO definitions, mixed exercise and nutrition interventions, and repeated use of the same primary trials across reviews.MethodsWe conducted an umbrella review of systematic reviews with pairwise meta-analysis or network meta-analysis. PubMed, Web of Science, SPORTDiscus, Cochrane Library, Emb...