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Pooling 6 controlled trials in 585 healthy women, adding exercise to hormone therapy produced no significant extra gain in bone mineral density at the spine or hip compared with hormone therapy alone, despite a small trend in favour of the combination.
- Study design
- Meta-analysis
- Journal
- J Clin Endocrinol Metab
- Evidence
- well supported
What it shows: Treat this as an open question rather than a closed case: results pooled from 6 trials covering 585 women showed a small trend favouring the combination that never reached significance. The trials used very different hormone doses and enrolled women in different hormonal states, which may have blurred any real effect.Meta-analysis · J Clin Endocrinol Metab
Effects of Hormone Therapy and Exercise on Bone Mineral Density in Healthy Women-A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2022Read the study →