The Effects of Nutrition Supplementation and Resistance Exercise During Hemodialysis

Completed · Phase 2

Conditions studied: End Stage Renal Disease

In brief

To test the hypothesis that an exercise session combined with adequate nutritional supplementation improves skeletal muscle protein accretion during a hemodialysis session.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00179179

Run by

Vanderbilt University

People needed

11

Starts

2005-04-01

Expected to finish

2007-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2009-07-09

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 75. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• On hemodialysis for more than 3 months, on a thrice weekly hemodialysis program.
• Adequately dialyzed (Kt/V > 1.2).
• Age 18-75

You may not qualify if…

• Pregnant women.
• Patients unable to perform exercise
• Severe unstable underlying disease besides commonly associated with ESRD. Cardiac patients that are stable will be included.
• Patients hospitalized within the last month prior to the study.
• Patients with malfunctioning arterial-venous access (recirculation and/or blood flow < 750 ml/min)
• Patients receiving steroids and/or other immunosuppressive agents.

Where it is running

• Vanderbilt University Medical Center — Nashville, Tennessee, United States

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