No single form of exercise came out ahead across every marker of metabolic syndrome in a new pooled analysis, but different types did appear to suit different problems.
The network meta-analysis of ten exercise interventions, published in iScience, drew on 53 randomized controlled trials involving 2,948 participants with metabolic syndrome, with mean ages across trials ranging from roughly 36 to 73. Rather than asking whether exercise helps, which is already established, it asked which kind appeared to help most for which marker.
