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PDF Exercise Effect on Progression of Chronic Kidney Disease

【Supercategory:7. DESCENTE SPORTS SCIENCE Subcategory:7.41 Vol.41

 ABSTRACT

 Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a worldwide health burden that afflicts approximately 10,000,000 people even only in Japan. The unsolved issues around CKD lie not only in high, mainly cardiovascular, mortality of patients with end stage kidney disease but also in substantial expenditure for maintenance dialysis therapy.Unfortunately, effective remedies against CKD have not been well established although recent clinical trials casted light on several pharmaceutical agents for diabetes and hypertension such as renin-angiotensin-aldosterone (RAA) system inhibitors and sodium/glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT-2)inhibitors.Since aerobatic exercise benefit on CKD progression is controversial, we designed animal experiments in which two different, immunologic and metabolic, renal injury models were conducted to mice which were concurrently subject to treadmill running test for 1 hour per day, 5 times per week. First, the exercise for 1 week prior to disease induction had no effect on albuminuria 8 hours after the induction, of mice with acute passive nephrotoxic seruminduced glomerulonephritis. Secondly, we focused on diet-dependent renal injury and confirmed that high fat diet for only 8 weeks conferred to a singificant amount of albuminuria in mice. Interestingly, the treadmill test for 8 weeks reduced albuminuria in mice fed with high fat diet as well as suppression of body weight gain. This result indicating that metabolic disordor bades renal change more than immunologocal renal damage may be able to receive benefits of the aerobatics exercise,raises a possibility that aerobatic exercise may prevent dyslipidemia-mediated CKD progression in a clinical setting. As to mechanistic process, in addition to improvement of systemic lipid and diabetic profile by skeletal activity, mitigation of renal lipotoxicity or enhancement of myokine action may also be contributory. Further study is needed to elucidate the underlying mechanism of the exercise effect on different animal CKD models.

DECENTE SPORTS SCIENCE Vol.41/The DESCENTE AND ISHIMOTO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION FOR THE PROMOTION SPORTS SCIENCE
Researcher Hiroshi Nishi*1,Takaaki Higashihara*2, Koji Takemura*3, Masaomi Nangaku*4
University or institution *1 The University of Tokyo Hospital,Division of Nephrology and Endocrinology,*2*3*4 The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine,Division of Nephrology

Keywords

kidney, skeletal muscle, aerobic exercise, albuminuria, inflammation