TOPLINE:

Compared with standard care, an 8-week supervised prehabilitation programme led to a significant improvement in exercise capacity, handgrip strength, and rectus femoris muscle thickness among kidney transplant candidates, even among those who were frail.

METHODOLOGY:

Researchers conducted a preliminary analysis of a subset within the FRAILMar study to evaluate whether an exercise-based prehabilitation programme improves exercise capacity, muscle function, and frailty status among kidney transplant candidates.

They included 121 adult kidney transplant candidates (mean age, 63.4 years; 24% women) who were randomly assigned to either receive standard care (the control group) or follow an 8-week prehabilitation programme comprising 24 supervised 1-hour sessions of aerobic, strengt

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