Investigating the Anabolic Response to Resistance Exercise After Critical Illness (ARTIST-2)

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

40 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-03-08

Study Completion Date

2024-01-18

Brief Summary

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ICU survivors often suffer from long-term functional disability. An attenuated response to physical exercise in skeletal muscle after critical illness may contribute to persisting weakness.

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of resistance exercise on muscle protein synthesis in former ICU patients. The investigators hypothesize that study subjects recovering from critical illness have an impaired anabolic response to resistance exercise after ICU stay as compared to non-critically ill controls.

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Detailed Description

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Background

The debilitating impact of critical illness has been recognized for several decades. Disability related to intensive care is now described as a syndrome called ICU-acquired weakness (ICUAW). ICUAW affects up to 70% of ICU patients and is most common with higher illness severity. Patients that develop ICUAW require longer hospitalization and have a higher risk of death. Weakness may persists for several years in ICU survivors. It has significant long-term consequences, and is associated with increased health care costs, delayed return to work, and overall poor quality of life.

Muscle atrophy is a major contributor to ICUAW. Critical illness is associated with a rapid loss of skeletal muscle, induced by catabolic signals from proinflammatory cytokines and hormones. The ability to regain lost muscle mass during convalescence may also be impaired. In a small observational study, muscle atrophy resolved only in a minority of ICU survivors at six months after ICU discharge.

Studies in exercise physiology have demonstrated that resistance training and amino acid ingestion have synergistic effects on muscle protein synthesis in healthy subjects. It is therefore an appealing therapy to reconstitute muscle mass after critical illness. Despite several clinical trials, there is equipoise regarding the efficacy of exercise in improving physical function in-ICU after ICU discharge. These mixed signals are unsurprising given the heterogeneous causes of ICUAW.

Only a few studies in this field have examined muscle architecture or cellular signaling in response to training. However, the gold standard in determining the anabolic response to exercise is to directly measure the effects on protein synthesis and breakdown. There is still no published research using this methodology to assess the effects of exercise interventions in former ICU patients. To understand the role of physical exercise in regaining lost muscle mass, the investigators plan to investigate the anabolic effects to resistance training after critical illness.

Aim and hypothesis

The aim of this study is to determine the anabolic response to resistance exercise after critical illness. The investigators hypothesize that study subjects recovering from critical illness have an impaired anabolic response to resistance exercise after ICU stay as compared to non-critically ill controls.

Conditions

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Critical Illness Muscle Loss

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Former ICU patients

Research subjects with a prior history of ICU treatment within six months.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Resistance exercise

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Knee extensions in flywheel inertia machine in four sets of 10 repetitions.

Oral protein supplementation

Intervention Type DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

24 grams of hydrolyzed whey protein.

Age- and sex-matched control group

Research subjects without a prior history of ICU treatment within the last 30 years, age- and sex-matched in a 1:2 ratio to the experimental arm.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Resistance exercise

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Knee extensions in flywheel inertia machine in four sets of 10 repetitions.

Oral protein supplementation

Intervention Type DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

24 grams of hydrolyzed whey protein.

Interventions

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Resistance exercise

Knee extensions in flywheel inertia machine in four sets of 10 repetitions.

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Oral protein supplementation

24 grams of hydrolyzed whey protein.

Intervention Type DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. Adult (≥18 years) previously admitted to an ICU at Karolinska University Hospital for ≥3 days and discharged alive from hospital

OR
2. Adult (≥18 years) without a history of ICU admission (control group)

Exclusion Criteria

1. Not able to provide informed consent
2. \>6 months since ICU discharge\*
3. Warfarin or dual antiplatelet therapy
4. Clinically significant inherited or acquired disorder of hemostasis
5. Lower-limb amputee
6. Lower-limb atherosclerotic disease with critical ischemia.
7. Recent fracture in lower limbs or significant osteoarthritis limiting movement in knee or hip joint
8. Metastatic cancer or active hematological malignancy
9. Inherited disorder of amino acid metabolism.
10. Chronic muscle, neuromuscular or neurologic disease with prior documentation of clinically significant lower-limb involvement
11. Pregnancy
12. Single organ failure not requiring invasive mechanical ventilation during ICU stay\*
13. Intubated only for airway protection with no other organ failure(s) during ICU stay\*
14. Planned postoperative care in ICU after elective cardiothoracic surgery\*

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes