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- Title
Metabolic effects of exercise training in hemodialysis patients.
- Authors
Goldberg, Andrew P.; Hagberg, James M.; Delmez, James A.; Haynes, Mary E.; Harter, Herschel R.
- Abstract
The effects of 9 ± 6 months of exercise training on lipid and carbohydrate metabolism were studied in six hemodialysis patients. Training lowered triglyceride levels 39 ± 25% (P < 0.02) and increased plasma high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels 23 ± 22% (before. 26 ± 5 mg/dl: after, 31 ± 8 mg/dl: P < 0.05). There was a 23% improvement in glucose tolerance (P < 0.01) and a 40% reduction in hyperinsulinism (P < 0.01) with no significant changes in body weight or diet. There was a 25 ± 8% increase in hematocrits (before. 22 ± 2% ; after, 27±2%.P<0.01) and a 29 ± 22% rise in hemoglobin concentrations (before, 7.0 ± 0.8 g/dl: after, 9.0 ± 0.6 g/dl. P < 0.04) in five patients. In addition, during training antihypertensive medications could be reduced In three patients with maintenance of normal blood pressure. The improvements in lipid and carbohydrate metabolism diminished when two patients stopped training. These results suggest that physical training can improve some of the metabolic abnormalities observed in hemodialysis patients and could be important as a therapeutic modality.
- Subjects
EXERCISE; HEMODIALYSIS; TRIGLYCERIDES; HIGH density lipoproteins; GLUCOSE
- Publication
Kidney International, 1980, Vol 18, Issue 6, p754
- ISSN
0085-2538
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/ki.1980.194