1️⃣ Naomi Clyne – The role of exercise training on cardiovascular risk factors and heart disease in severe
#ERA26
➡️ Key messages:
🔹Exercise is far more than physical activity: skeletal muscle acts as an endocrine organ, releasing myokines with systemic anti-inflammatory and cardiometabolic effects.
🔹Physical inactivity is a major CV risk factor across all
#CKD stages, while even modest increases in activity are associated with improved outcomes.
🔹Exercise should be viewed as a therapeutic intervention, adaptable to each patient’s functional capacity.
📊 Key data:
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#CVD accounts for 58% of deaths in CKD stage 5 and KRT patients.
🔹 As little as 15 minutes/day (90 min/week) of physical activity is associated with 🔽 mortality risk (HR 0.87).
🔹 In the EXCITE trial, 6 months of home-based exercise improved hospitalization-free survival in dialysis patients.
🔹 In the DiaTT trial, 12 months of intradialytic exercise reduced hospital days from 12.8 to 10.9 days/patient (p=0.036).
🔹 In RENEXC, resistance training reduced albuminuria from 98 to 64 g/mol after 12 months (p<0.001).
💡 Take-home messages:
🔹Exercise is medicine. Even small doses can improve outcomes, reduce hospitalizations and potentially slow disease progression in CKD patient