“…Recent reviews on exercise for physical function among patients with CKD have lacked a focus on objectively measured physical function among patients on HD. The majority of reviews over the last 10 yr where physical function was an outcome have either not followed a systematic review process (2,8,25,26,34,36,37,40,47,59,61,67,68,82,86,87), included the full spectrum of CKD where level of physical function varies significantly (2, 4, 24, 25, 29, 30, 33, 34, 40, 47-49, 61, 64, 67, 75, 86), included only a specific modality of exercise such as aerobic or resistance exercise (7,11,75,91), focused specifically on solely intradialytic exercise (91), or included studies that are not randomized controlled trials or controlled trials using matched controls (5,10,11,39,49,51,64). Of the reviews that did meet these criteria, many are now dated, reviewing studies from before 2000, and thus do not include a number of contemporary training studies exploring exercise among patients on dialysis.…”