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. 2020 Nov 1;115(5):885–893. [Article in Portuguese] doi: 10.36660/abc.20190260

Table 1. Summary of studies selected for the variable left ventricular fractional shortening (FS%).

Author (year) Type of exercise Intervention protocol DOX injection Left ventricular fractional shortening (FS%)
Control + DOX Aerobic exercise + DOX
n X¯SD n X¯SD
Hayward et al. (2012)18 Aerobic Running wheel Free access 24h/day Total: 10 weeks 2 mg/kg for 7 days
Total = 14 mg/kg during exercise
15 52 ± 38 17 61 ± 29
Hydock et al. (2012) (a)19 Aerobic Running wheel Free access 24h/day Total: 10 weeks 1 mg/kg for 15 days
Total = 15 mg/kg during exercise
15 45 ± 3 9 46 ± 4
Hydock et al. (2012) (b)19 Aerobic Running wheel Free access 24h/day Total: 10 weeks 2.5 mg/kg weekly for 6 weeks
Total = 15 mg/kg during exercise
10 52 ± 5 10 61 ± 4
Calvé et al. (2012) (a)20 Aerobic Swimming 1h/day
Total: 4 weeks
3 mg/kg on the 26th day of life pre-exercise 8 53.1 ± 3.8 8 49.5 ± 2.2
Calvé et al. (2012)(b)20 Aerobic Swimming 1h/day
Total: 4 weeks
3 mg/kg on the 26th day of life pre-exercise 8 47 ± 2.1 8 51.6 ± 1.7
Dolinsky et al. (2013)21 Aerobic Treadmill 10-18 m/min 5 days/week
Total: 8 weeks
8 mg/kg per week for 4 weeks
Total = 32 mg/kg pre-exercise
8 23.8 ± 1.0 8 28.0 ± 0.7
Jensen et al. (2013) (a)22 Aerobic Treadmill 13-30 min/m 5⁰-18⁰ 20-60 min/day 5 days/week
Total: 10 weeks
10 mg/kg
single dose post exercise
8 50.47 ± 2.77 4 61.60 ± 7.28
Jensen et al. (2013) (b)22 Aerobic Running wheel Free access 24h/day Total: 10 weeks 10 mg/kg single dose post exercise 8 50.47 ± 2.77 7 58.3 ± 4.33
Parry et al. (2015)23 Aerobic Running wheel Free access 24h/day Total: 11 weeks 12 mg/kg single dose post exercise 6 59 ± 6 4 63 ± 4
Lien et al. (2015) (a)24 Aerobic Treadmill 18-24 m/min
Total: 5 days
10 mg/kg single dose post exercise 10 48 ± 4 10 56 ± 4
Lien et al. (2015) (b)24 Aerobic Running wheel Free access 24h/day Total: 5 days 10 mg/kg single dose post exercise 10 48 ± 4 10 51 ± 5
Lien et al. (2015) (c)24 Aerobic Treadmill 18-24 m/min
Total: 5 days
15 mg/kg single dose post exercise 13 39 ± 6 13 48 ± 5
Lien et al. (2015) (d)24 Aerobic Running wheel Free access 24h/day Total: 5 days 15 mg/kg
single dose post exercise
13 39 ± 6 12 45 ± 3

DOX: doxorubicin; x: mean; SD: standard deviation;

measurement done on the 5th day after DOX injection;

(a), (b), (c), (d) are subdivisions of the studies conducted by Hydock et al.19 (2012), Calvé et al.20 (2012), Jensen et al.22 (2013), and Lien et al.24 (2015).