Body-fat changes faded after training, while quality-of-life improvements remained
In breast cancer survivors receiving aromatase inhibitors, combined exercise produced body-fat changes that did not persist through follow-up. Reported improvements in several quality-of-life domains lasted longer.
Based on the published abstract. The full paper may contain additional methods, results and limitations.
The 30-second takeaway
Body-fat measures and quality-of-life scores followed different paths after the training intervention ended. The exercise group's initial body-fat changes returned to baseline, while improvements in several quality-of-life domains persisted. These findings concern breast cancer survivors receiving aromatase inhibitors, and incomplete reassessment limits how confidently the follow-up describes the original groups.
Only 27 participants were reassessed. The abstract provides no effect sizes or confidence intervals and does not report bone-density results, although bone mineral density was a stated outcome.
What researchers found
Fat mass and body-fat percentage
Lower in the training group versus control after 9 months of exercise; training-group values returned to baseline after the subsequent 1-year follow-up. Change sizes were not reported.
Immediate results differed from later results
The study followed participants after combined training ended. Its initial body-fat findings did not persist through the later assessment. A favorable measurement at the end of an intervention therefore did not necessarily describe a lasting change.
Quality of life followed another pattern
The training group had more favorable scores for physical functioning, physical health, social functioning, bodily pain and vitality than controls. These improvements remained at follow-up, but the abstract does not quantify how noticeable they were to participants.
The original publication
The Long-Term Effects of Combined Training and 1-Year Follow-Up in Breast Cancer Survivors.
de Paulo TRS, Rossi FE, Rossi PAQ et al.
Int J Sports Med · 2025
- PubMed ID
- 40744079
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