Review article: impact of exercise on physical frailty in patients with chronic liver disease.
Felicity Rhian WilliamsAnnalisa BerzigottiJanet M LordJennifer C LaiMatthew James ArmstrongPublished in: Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics (2019)
Exercise improves key components of physical frailty (functional/aerobic capacity, sarcopenia) and quality of life in chronic liver disease and after liver transplantation. Understanding the type, compliance, intensity and duration of exercise and its impact on hard clinical outcomes should be the focus of future large controlled clinical trials.