A randomized trial of the effect of a walking regimen on the functional status of 100 adult allogeneic donor hematopoietic cell transplant patients
A randomized trial of the effect of a walking regimen on the functional status of 100 adult allogeneic donor hematopoietic cell transplant patients
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DOI:
10.1016/j.bbmt.2007.04.008
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发表时间:
2007-08-01
影响因子:
4.3
通讯作者:
Weisdorf, Daniel J.
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作者:
DeFor, Todd E.;Burns, Linda J.;Weisdorf, Daniel J.
To investigate the impact of exercise on adult allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant recipients, we randomized 100 patients to either a structured walking regimen or to a control group with no formal exercise program. Starting on the day of admission for transplant, patients in the exercise arm were asked to walk on a treadmill twice a day for 15 minutes while in the hospital. After discharge, they were asked to walk once a day for 30 minutes. The effect of the exercise program was primarily measured by the change in the Karnofsky score (KPS) from transplant admission to day 100 posttransplant, which was scored by the attending physician who was blinded to the assigned exercise regimen. The decline in KPS was smaller in the exercise group than in the control group: 10 points versus 20 points. This difference was not statistically significant in the total study population (P =.21) but was statistically significant among the subset of older and less fit patients receiving nonmyeloablative pretransplant conditioning (P =.04). Sixty-four percent of patients on the exercise arm who had a baseline KPS = 90 by day 100 compared to 18% of the control arm (P =.03). Thirty-two percent of patients with a baseline score >= 90 had a score >= 90 by day 100 in both groups (P =.99). Analyses of patients' self reported scores at the time of discharge for physical and emotional well-being showed that the exercise arm had better scores for physical well-being (P