{"id":233194,"date":"2026-03-12T23:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/exercise-nutrition-physical-agent-therapy-in-older-adults-with-sarcopenic-obesity-a-systematic-review-and-network-meta-analysis"},"modified":"2026-03-12T23:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:39:11","slug":"exercise-nutrition-physical-agent-therapy-in-older-adults-with-sarcopenic-obesity-a-systematic-review-and-network-meta-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/exercise-nutrition-physical-agent-therapy-in-older-adults-with-sarcopenic-obesity-a-systematic-review-and-network-meta-analysis","title":{"rendered":"Exercise, nutrition, physical agent therapy in older adults with sarcopenic obesity: a systematic review and network meta-analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exercise-nutrition-physical-agent-therapy-in-older-adults-with-sarcopenic-obesity-a-systematic-review-and-network-meta-analysis2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sarcopenic obesity (SO) is characterized by the co-existence of excess adiposity and low muscle performance, with a high prevalence and poor prognosis in the geriatric population.<\/p>\n<p>This systematic review and network meta-analysis (NMA) aims to assess the most effective non-pharmacological interventions for SO patients, including nutrition, exercise, and physical agent therapy.<\/p>\n<p>A systematic search of six electronic databases was conducted from their inception until July 5, 2025, for randomized controlled trials. The NMA utilized a random-effects model, pooled mean difference (MD) and standardized mean difference (SMD), with 95% credible intervals (CrI), accounting for correlations within multi-arm trials. Subgroup analyses and sensitivity analyses were also performed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarcopenic obesity (SO) is characterized by the co-existence of excess adiposity and low muscle performance, with a high prevalence and poor prognosis in the geriatric population. This systematic review and network meta-analysis (NMA) aims to assess the most effective non-pharmacological interventions for SO patients, including nutrition, exercise, and physical agent therapy. A systematic search of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}