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Fitness program for transplant candidates linked to lower mortality (opens in a new tab)

medicalxpress.com · 2026-10-21

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Claim 1 of 5Not checkedPatients whose frailty score improved by 0.4 points or more had a roughly 50% lower risk of dying while waiting for a transplant.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 2 of 5Not checkedA new study from Northwestern Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh found that frailty can be significantly improved with a personalized, physician-led fitness program for transplant candidates.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 3 of 5Not checkedIn the study, more than 350 liver transplant candidates participated in a highly individualized workout and nutrition program, and nearly two-thirds of patients who attended at least three program visits lowered their frailty score by an average of nearly 0.4 points.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 4 of 5Not checkedThe article says the study tracked changes in the Liver Frailty Index among nearly 1,300 adults evaluated for liver transplantation between 2018 and 2022 at the University of Pittsburgh transplant center, with 355 returning for at least two follow-up visits and counted as prehabilitation participants.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 5 of 5Not checkedThe paper was published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology and is identified as Personalized Prehabilitation: A Pathway to Improved Frailty Metrics and Survival in Liver Transplant Candidates.View evidenceHide evidence

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The impact of supervised aerobic and resistance exercise prehabilitation on frailty and recovery after living donor liver transplantation: Open-label randomized trial.

Liver Transplantation : Official Publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society · 2026 · PubMed, Europe PMC, Crossref

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