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Record W4417352686 · doi:10.1249/mss.0000000000003921

Is Exercise-Induced Lactate Accumulation Associated with Changes in Acylated Ghrelin? A Systematic Review and Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis

2025· article· en· W4417352686 on OpenAlexafffund
Seth F. McCarthy, Jessica A. L. Tucker, Tom J. Hazell

Bibliographic record

VenueMedicine & Science in Sports & Exercise · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicRegulation of Appetite and Obesity
Canadian institutionsWilfrid Laurier UniversityUniversity of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsGhrelinLactic acidPeptide hormoneSecretion

Abstract

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INTRODUCTION: Lactate has been proposed to suppress the release and activation of the orexigenic peptide acylated ghrelin, though no study has synthesized available evidence from acute exercise trials. PURPOSE: To determine if exercise-induced lactate accumulation predicts and/or is associated with changes in acylated ghrelin. METHODS: A systematic search strategy was developed and conducted in four databases for studies exploring changes in acylated ghrelin and lactate during acute exercise interventions. Using Covidence, studies were identified and included if participants were between the ages of 18 and 65 years, healthy (absence of medical condition or disease), conducted an acute exercise trial, and measured both acylated ghrelin and lactate pre and postexercise. Corresponding authors of eligible studies were contacted for individual data, and linear mixed-effect models were fitted and repeated measures correlations were conducted to determine if change in (Δ) lactate predicts and/or was associated with Δ acylated ghrelin and acylated ghrelin incremental area under the curve (iAUC). RESULTS: Twelve data sets (169 participants) were included in the Δ acylated ghrelin analysis and nine data sets (105 participants) were included in the acylated ghrelin iAUC analysis. There was a significant effect of Δ lactate for both Δ acylated ghrelin (β = -8.1, standard error = 1.1, P < 0.001) and Δ acylated ghrelin iAUC (β = -698, standard error = 69, P < 0.001) and Δ lactate had a negative correlation with both outcomes (r m = -0.41, P < 0.001; and r m = -0.59, P < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Overall, this study suggests that exercise-induced lactate accumulation significantly affects Δ acylated ghrelin and acylated ghrelin iAUC and is negatively associated, suggesting that greater exercise-induced lactate accumulation would be associated with the suppression of ghrelin.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.025
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.069
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Meta-analysis · Consensus signal: Meta-analysis
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.025
Threshold uncertainty score0.130

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0250.069
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0200.042
Bibliometrics0.0070.008
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0040.002
Open science0.0020.002
Research integrity0.0030.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.226
GPT teacher head0.387
Teacher spread0.161 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designMeta-analysis
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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