Does exercise training during hemodialysis improve cardiac baroreflex sensitivity and functional capacity in HD patients?
Exercise training during hemodialysis can improve impaired cardiac baroreflex sensitivity and functional capacity in patients undergoing hemodialysis.
Our results indicate that HD patients had considerably reduced cardiorespiratory capacity and impaired cardiac BRS compared to healthy sedentary individuals. Importantly, exercise training during HD yielded a marked increase of the indices representing baroreflex activity in association to the improvement of their functional capacity.
Petraki et al. (2008) studied this question.