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    Nutritional status, functional capacity and exercise rehabilitation in end-stage renal disease

    Date
    2004
    Author
    Mercer, Tom
    Koufaki, Pelagia
    Naish, P. F.
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    Mercer, T., Koufaki, P. & Naish, P. (2004) Nutritional status, functional capacity and exercise rehabilitation in end-stage renal disease, Clinical nephrology, vol. 61 Sup, , pp. S54-S59,
    Abstract
    A significant percentage of patients with end-stage renal disease are malnourished and/or muscle wasted. Uremia is associated with decreased protein synthesis and increased protein degradation. Fortunately, nutritional status has been shown to be a modifiable risk factor in the dialysis population. It has long been proposed that exercise could positively alter the protein synthesis-degradation balance. Resistance training had been considered as the only form of exercise likely to induce anabolism in renal failure patients. However, a small, but growing, body of evidence indicates that for some dialysis patients, favourable improvements in muscle atrophy and fibre hypertrophy can be achieved via predominantly aerobic exercise training. Moreover, some studies tentatively suggest that nutritional status, as measured by SGA, can also be modestly improved by modes and patterns of exercise training that have been shown to also increase muscle fibre cross-sectional area and improve functionalcapacity. Functional capacity tests can augment the information content of basic nutritional status assessments of dialysis patients and as such are recommended for routine inclusion as a feature of all nutritional status assessments.
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