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VO: This is an encore presentation of NephTalk from Satellite Healthcare.
CS: You’re suggesting that people become depressed, discouraged, and sedentary, not necessarily in that order? Am I exaggerating here?
SA: Once they start dialysis? No, you’re not exaggerating. We know that 50 percent of patients on dialysis can barely walk a block.
CS: Really?
SA: Yes. And so, if we can catch them before they have to go through that insult, we’re really hoping that we can keep them in a positive cycle, where they have more self-efficacy. They have more confidence in their physical and mental capacity.
(CS ) That’s Dr. Shuchi Anand, MD, who received a Satellite Healthcare research grant, inspired by provocative questions, like: What would happen if we, as nephrologists, intervened early in the patient’s chronic kidney disease journey before they started dialysis, by prescribing an exercise program? Would that better prepare patients for the physical, social and emotional challenges of the dialysis experience and ultimately make them healthier candidates for a transplant?
Dr. Anand, will be joined by several of her investigators, including fellow Stanford Medicine nephrologist Dr. Susan Ziolkowski, MD; and co-principal investigator Dr. Felipe Lobelo, MD, a medical epidemiologist at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, who’s also working with a diverse groups of patients, including a significant African-American population.
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VO: This is an encore presentation of NephTalk from Satellite Healthcare.
CS: You’re suggesting that people become depressed, discouraged, and sedentary, not necessarily in that order? Am I exaggerating here?
SA: Once they start dialysis? No, you’re not exaggerating. We know that 50 percent of patients on dialysis can barely walk a block.
CS: Really?
SA: Yes. And so, if we can catch them before they have to go through that insult, we’re really hoping that we can keep them in a positive cycle, where they have more self-efficacy. They have more confidence in their physical and mental capacity.
(CS ) That’s Dr. Shuchi Anand, MD, who received a Satellite Healthcare research grant, inspired by provocative questions, like: What would happen if we, as nephrologists, intervened early in the patient’s chronic kidney disease journey before they started dialysis, by prescribing an exercise program? Would that better prepare patients for the physical, social and emotional challenges of the dialysis experience and ultimately make them healthier candidates for a transplant?
Dr. Anand, will be joined by several of her investigators, including fellow Stanford Medicine nephrologist Dr. Susan Ziolkowski, MD; and co-principal investigator Dr. Felipe Lobelo, MD, a medical epidemiologist at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, who’s also working with a diverse groups of patients, including a significant African-American population.