Physical exercise and cognitive training interventions to improve cognition in hemodialysis patients : a systematic review

Bogataj, Špela (author), Kurnik Mesarič, Katja (author), Pajek, Maja (author), Petrušič, Tanja (author), Pajek, Jernej (author)

Introduction: Patients with chronic kidney disease treated with hemodialysis (HD) have lower cognitive abilities compared to the age-matched healthy population. Recently, physical exercise and cognitive training have been presented as possible interventions to improve cognitive abilities both in the general population and in patients with chronic diseases. To date, there is no general overview of the current knowledge on how these interventions affect cognitive abilities in HD patients and what tests are used to measure these effects. Methods: Three electronic databases were searched for randomized controlled studies of physical exercise or cognitive training interventions that examined effects on cognitive abilities/performance in HD patients. Results: Six articles were included. All included studies used physical exercise as an intervention, with one study also including tablet-based cognitive training. Four studies included an intradialytic approach and two included a home-based intervention. Intervention lasted. A significant intervention effect was observed in three studies compared with the control condition. Conclusion: The present review suggests that physical exercise might improve or at least not worsen cognitive performance in HD patients, whereas the effect of cognitive training has not yet been adequately studied. There is a need for more sensitive and specific cognitive tests to adequately measure the effects of interventions in the HD population.

• Language: English
• Keywords: cognitive performance, hemodialysis, physical exercise, cognitive training, cognitive tests, intervention
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FŠ - Faculty of Sport; PEF - Faculty of Education
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: 11 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 10, art. 1032076
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-142226
• UDC: 61:796.035
• ISSN on article: 2296-2565
• DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1032076
• COBISS.SI-ID: 127076867
• Publication date in RUL: 26.10.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Frontiers in public health
• Shortened title: Front. public health
• Publisher: Frontiers Media
• ISSN: 2296-2565
• COBISS.SI-ID: 523096857

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: hemodializa, telovadba

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: Z3-3213
• Name: Izzivi doseganja prehranske preskrbljenosti prebivalcev domov za starejše občane

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P3-0323
• Name: Ledvične bolezni in nadomestna zdravljenja