Randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effects of combined progressive exercise on metabolic syndrome in breast cancer survivors: Rationale, design, and methods

BMC Cancer

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Dieli Conwright, Christina M ^a   Mortimer, Joanne E ^b   Schroeder, E T ^a   Courneya, Kerry ^c   Demark Wahnefried, Wendy ^d   Buchanan, Thomas A ^e   Tripathy, Debu ^e   Bernstein, Leslie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Exercise; Metabolic syndrome

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; INSULIN;

AEROBIC EXERCISE; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BONE DENSITY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVOR; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EXERCISE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INTERVENTION STUDY; LYMPHEDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OBESITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANGE OF MOTION; RESISTANCE TRAINING; RISK FACTOR; VEIN PUNCTURE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WELLBEING; ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANCER STAGING; COMPLICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SURVIVOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHYSICAL FITNESS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESISTANCE TRAINING; SURVIVORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84897963000     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-14-238     Document Type: Article

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