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Effects of Progressive Inspiratory Muscle Training on Lung Volume and Respiratory Strength in Patients With Pre-Dialysis Chronic Kidney Disease.

Article B Peer reviewed Small trial

Key takeaways

A randomized trial tested training the muscles you breathe with in people with stage 3 to 5 kidney disease who are not on dialysis. One group trained against rising resistance, up to half of their maximum breathing-in strength; the other group was the comparison. Kidney disease can weaken these muscles even before dialysis starts, and this trial measured lung volume and breathing strength. The published abstract does not give the number of people, the length of training, or the size of the benefit, so how much it helped is not yet clear from this record.

Who did this work

Soares de Oliveira M · Moraes de Macêdo T · Ferreira Alves K · Marinho Cunha BL · Xavier Nunes DT · Melo da Silva LM · de Melo Marinho PÉ

Source

Article · PubMed, CKD progression · 2026 Oct
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42649477/