Exercise training in dialysis patients: impact on cardiovascular and skeletal muscle health.

ABSTRACT: Dialysis patients show a high rate of reduced functional capacity, morbidity and mortality. Cardiovascular disorders, muscle atrophy and malnutrition play an essential role among the aetiological factors. Sedentary lifestyle characterizes them and contributes to the aggravation of the disorders. On the contrary, exercise training is an important preventive and therapeutic tool both for cardiovascular problems and for the appearance of muscle atrophy in dialysis patients. Regular exercise causes both central (cardiac) and peripheral (muscular) adaptations, improving functional capacity. In particular, circulatory system clinical trials in haemodialysis (HD) patients documented that exercise has favourable effects on heart function, promotes balance on the cardiac autonomic nervous system an

SUBMITTER: Deligiannis A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8101623 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature