Efficacy of Different Types of Physical Activity Interventions on Exercise Capacity in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): A Network Meta-Analysis

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

First of all, I would like to congratulate the authors for their work.

I will now proceed to present my review:

It is a very interesting reader article, so I encourage the authors to reduce the percentage of copy in the statistical part, specifically "Data synthesis and statistical analysis" where the entire sub-index corresponds to the article "Torres-Costoso A, Martínez-Vizcaíno V, Reina-Gutiérrez S, Álvarez-Bueno C, Guzmán-Pavón MJ, Pozuelo-Carrascosa DP, Fernández-Rodríguez R, Sanchez-López M, Cavero-Redondo I. Effect of Exercise on Fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis: A Network Meta-analysis Comparing Different Types of Exercise. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2022 May;103(5):970-987.e18. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2021.08.008." Understanding that the authors' article and also perform another review.

I reiterate my congratulations

Author Response

Cuenca, October 2022

Dear Mica Yan, Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Enclosed you will find a revision of our manuscript: “Efficacy of different types of physical activity interventions on exercise capacity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): a network meta-analysis”.

We would like to thank you for giving us the opportunity to revise and improve our manuscript; we also thank the reviewers for their thoughtful and constructive comments.

We have considered all of the suggestions and incorporated them into the revised manuscript. In order to cope with the very pertinent revisions requested we have profoundly revised the paper. Changes to the original manuscript are highlighted in red, and we believe our manuscript is stronger as a result of these modifications. An itemized point-by-point response to the editor and reviewers’ comments is presented below.

Yours sincerely

Mª Isabel Lucerón Lucas-Torres

Reviewer Comments:

First of all, I would like to congratulate the authors for their work.

Reviewer’s comment

I will now proceed to present my review:

It is a very interesting reader article, so I encourage the authors to reduce the percentage of copy in the statistical part, specifically "Data synthesis and statistical analysis" where the entire sub-index corresponds to the article "Torres-Costoso A, Martínez-Vizcaíno V, Reina-Gutiérrez S, Álvarez-Bueno C, Guzmán-Pavón MJ, Pozuelo-Carrascosa DP, Fernández-Rodríguez R, Sanchez-López M, Cavero-Redondo I. Effect of Exercise on Fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis: A Network Meta-analysis Comparing Different Types of Exercise. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2022 May;103(5):970-987.e18. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2021.08.008." Understanding that the authors' article and also perform another review.

I reiterate my congratulations.

Authors response

We really appreciate the reviewer’s comment. As suggested, we have thoroughly analyzed the "Data synthesis and statistical analysis" section and have modified to reduce the copy percentage.

Reviewer 2 Report

Thank you for your hardwork.

The citation format of the literature is differrent from usual.

Figure 2 can be modified

Author Response

Cuenca, October 2022

Dear Mica Yan, Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Enclosed you will find a revision of our manuscript: “Efficacy of different types of physical activity interventions on exercise capacity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): a network meta-analysis”.

We would like to thank you for giving us the opportunity to revise and improve our manuscript; we also thank the reviewers for their thoughtful and constructive comments.

We have considered all of the suggestions and incorporated them into the revised manuscript. In order to cope with the very pertinent revisions requested we have profoundly revised the paper. Changes to the original manuscript are highlighted in red, and we believe our manuscript is stronger as a result of these modifications. An itemized point-by-point response to the editor and reviewers’ comments is presented below.

Yours sincerely

Mª Isabel Lucerón Lucas-Torres

Reviewer Comments:

Thank you for your hardwork.

Reviewer’s comment

The citation format of the literature is different from usual.

Authors response

Thank you for the comment. We have revised the citation format of the literature and we have adapted it to the citation standards of the journal.

Reviewer’s comment

Figure 2 can be modified.

Authors response

Thank you for your comments, we have tried to improve figure 2 and increase its quality.

We really appreciate the time and effort the reviewers have devoted to the revision of this paper.