A Critical Review of Exercise Training in Hemodialysis Patients: Personalized Activity Prescriptions Are Needed

Exerc Sport Sci Rev. 2020 Jan;48(1):28-39. doi: 10.1249/JES.0000000000000209.

Abstract

Exercise training appears to have modest or inconsistent benefits in hemodialysis patients. This may be due to the low volume and intensity of exercise often prescribed. To address this, research is needed to evaluate the efficacy of individualized exercise prescriptions as a component of a comprehensive lifestyle intervention strategy that gives patients more autonomy to choose preferred types of physical activity.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Biomedical Research
  • Cardiovascular Diseases / prevention & control
  • Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Exercise / physiology*
  • Healthy Lifestyle*
  • Humans
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic / therapy
  • Physical Conditioning, Human / physiology*
  • Physical Endurance / physiology
  • Quality of Life
  • Renal Dialysis*
  • Risk Factors