#9 Physical activity in CKD, with Alice Smith
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Do you want to know the name of the magic treatment? A treatment that improves the endurance and the force of the patients ? A treatment that makes them feel better and less tired? A treatment that improves their autonomy, their capacities for the daily tasks and their quality of life? A treatment that improves the blood pressure control, the lipid and metabolic profile? And all that for free? Without pills? Do you want to know the name of this treatment? Come closer, I ‘ll share with you the secret! It is the physical activity!!! In this podcast we’ll discuss physical activity with Professor Alice Smith from the University of Leicester. Alice is Professor of Lifestyle medicine and leads the Leicester Kidney Lifestyle Team, an internationally renowned multidisciplinary research group which aims to help kidney patients achieve the best possible health and wellbeing through appropriate lifestyle management. Her teams’ research portfolio includes ~20 single- and multi-centre clinical trials and has recruited some 10000 participants from across England.
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