Intra-dialytic training accelerates oxygen uptake kinetics in hemodialysis patients.

Background: End-stage renal disease is associated with several hemodynamic and peripheral muscle abnormalities that could slow the rate of change in oxygen uptake ([Formula: see text]O2) at the onset and at the end of exercise. This study was performed to determine whether an intra-dialytic aerobic training program would speed [Formula: see text]O2 kinetics at the transition to and from moderate and high-intensity exercise.

Design: This study was a randomized controlled trial.

Constant work-rate test to assess the effects of intradialytic aerobic training in mildly impaired patients with end-stage renal disease: a randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To investigate if high-intensity constant work rate (CWR) would constitute a more appropriate testing strategy compared with incremental work rate (IWR) to assess the effectiveness of intradialytic aerobic training in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD).

Design: Randomized controlled trial.

Setting: Nephrology unit at the university hospital.

Exercise training during hemodialysis reduces blood pressure and increases physical functioning and quality of life.

Hypertension and cardiovascular diseases are highly prevalent in hemodialysis patients and are associated with the reduction of physical functioning and quality of life. We evaluated the effects of supervised aerobic exercise training on physical functioning, blood pressure, quality of life, and laboratory data in hemodialysis patients. Fourteen patients were evaluated at the beginning and after 12 weeks of stretching exercises (control phase) and at the end of 12 weeks of aerobic exercise training performed during hemodialysis sessions (intervention phase).

[Aerobic exercise improves physical capacity in patients under chronic hemodialysis].

Background: In the general population, regular practice of physical exercises is associated with improved physical capacity and reduction of cardiovascular events. Concerning patients with chronic kidney disease, a population with significant impairment of physical capacity and high rates of cardiovascular mortality, few studies have evaluated the effects of physical activity.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of aerobic exercise during hemodialysis on the physical capacity and blood pressure of patients with chronic renal failure.