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Exercise interventions significantly improve cardiorespiratory fitness and quality of life in NAFLD patients, even if weight loss is not statistically significant compared to control.
Even if you don't lose much weight, regular exercise (150+ mins/week) will improve your heart health, fitness, and quality of life. These benefits are distinct from weight loss and are valuable for NAFLD management.
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Additionally, exercise improved quality of life, cardiorespiratory fitness, and weight (MD: -2.64 CI 95% -5.18, -0.09).
Why this rating
Meta-analysis of 30 RCTs, though heterogeneity existed.
Source
Lifestyle changes in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Tiziana Fernández et al. · PLoS ONE · 2022
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0263931
Meta-analysis · 30 studiesCited 110×
Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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