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Protocolized exercise improves frailty parameters and lower extremity impairment: A promising prehabilitation strategy for kidney transplant candidates.

Elizabeth C LorenzLaTonya J HicksonRenee M WeatherlyKarin L ThompsonHeidi A WalkerJudy M RasmussenTara L StewartJames K GarrettHatem AmerCassie C Kennedy
Published in: Clinical transplantation (2020)
Preliminary data from this study suggest that a supervised, outpatient exercise intervention is safe, acceptable, feasible, and associated with improved frailty parameters, and lower extremity function, in patients with advanced CKD. Further studies are needed to confirm these findings and determine whether this prehabilitation strategy improves KT outcomes.
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