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Cardiovascular (CV) disease (CVD), sharing many common risk factors with chronic kidney disease (CKD), is a major contributor to reduced life expectancy in CKD patients, being CV risk exponentially related to renal function decline. Exercise training (ExT), and the broader spectrum CV rehabilitation (CVR), can contribute to CV and renal risk factors and disease management, but are rarely prescribed to patients with CKD, especially in more advanced stages. Frequently, the presence of old age, geriatric specificities, comorbidities like anaemia, muscle atrophy, hyperparathyroidism, vitamin D deficiency and osteoporosis, transform these patients into complex cases, difficult to be managed by only one specialist, requiring an integrated look and specific attention. A multidisciplinary and multicomponent approach is needed for these multimorbidity patients, including the nephrologist, together with the cardiologist and the exercise expert as a central core in the rehabilitation team. However, CVR centres are not used to deal with these cases, focusing more often in CV patients (coronary artery disease, heart failure, post-cardiovascular surgery) with less severe renal failure.
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© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved.
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Citation
Eur J Prev Cardiol. 2024 Sep 6;31(12):1516-1517
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Oxford University Press