{"doi":"10.1002/cam4.7079","title":"Effectiveness of mobile health for exercise promotion on cardiorespiratory fitness after a cancer diagnosis: A systematic review and meta‐analysis","abstract":"BACKGROUND: Cancer survivors are at greater risk for cardiovascular-related mortality. Mobile health (mHealth) is an increasingly prevalent strategy for health promotion, but whether it consistently improves cardiorespiratory outcomes after a cancer diagnosis is unknown. We sought to determine the effectiveness of mHealth fitness/physical activity interventions on cardiorespiratory fitness outcomes among cancer patients and survivors. METHODS: max, 3-minute step test, or systolic blood pressure; or any mention of cardiac measure) and were meta-analyzed (using a random effects model) if they were a randomized controlled trial with sufficient quantitative information. Four coders were involved in applying inclusion/exclusion criteria, coding using a standardized data extraction sheet, and assessing study quality, with each study coded by at least two. RESULTS: Of 656 articles, nine (n = 392) met systematic review inclusion criteria (mean age range 19-62 years, 71.9% female, 60.9% breast cancer). Interventions included mobile apps (k = 6), smartwatches (k = 2), or a smartwatch plus a supplemental web/mobile/tablet app (k = 1); median duration of mHealth-use was 12 weeks. Seven (n = 341) fit criteria for meta-analysis. mHealth was associated with improved cardiorespiratory fitness (d = 0.33; 95% CI = 0.07-0.60) compared to a control group. Relationships remained after accounting for lipid-based outcomes (d = 0.30; 95% CI = 0.03-0.56). There was no evidence for heterogeneity or publication-bias. CONCLUSIONS: mHealth exercise interventions appear to be a viable strategy for improving cardiorespiratory fitness after a cancer diagnosis.","journal":"Cancer Medicine","year":2024,"id":441102,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":9,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.961,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2024-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":763465,"name":"Weidan Cao","orcid":"0000-0001-5417-2121","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":750717,"name":"Saurabh Rahurkar","orcid":"0000-0001-8597-3087","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":669778,"name":"Fadi Haroun","orcid":"0000-0002-1823-1259","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1103266,"name":"James C. Stock","orcid":"0009-0009-7227-8494","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1019403,"name":"Sanam Ghazi","orcid":"0000-0002-7205-1427","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":430239,"name":"Daniel Addison","orcid":"0000-0002-9113-8333","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":683321,"name":"Megan E. Gregory","orcid":"0000-0002-6888-6886","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":30,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:01:06.281460Z","pmid":"39248010","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}