About the Authors
- Hannah M. L. Young
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* E-mail: hannah.young@uhl-tr.nhs.uk
Affiliation Leicester Kidney Exercise Team, Academic Unit, Leicester General Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom
- Nicky Hudson
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Affiliation School of Applied Social Sciences, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom
- Amy L. Clarke
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Affiliations Leicester Kidney Exercise Team, Academic Unit, Leicester General Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom, Department of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
- Maurice Dungey
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Affiliations Leicester Kidney Exercise Team, Academic Unit, Leicester General Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom
- John Feehally
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Affiliation John Walls Renal Unit, Leicester General Hospital University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trusts, Leicester, United Kingdom
- James O. Burton
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Affiliation Leicester Kidney Exercise Team, Academic Unit, Leicester General Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom
- Alice C. Smith
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Affiliations Leicester Kidney Exercise Team, Academic Unit, Leicester General Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom, Department of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
Outside the submitted work Reck United Kingdom (manufacturers of the exercise bike used during the implementation phase) funded HMLY, MD, and JOB to attend the 2012 BMJ Awards. http://www.motomed.com/. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: ACS NH. Analyzed the data: HMLY ALC. Wrote the paper: HMLY. Patient recruitment: HMLY JOB ACS. Data collection: HMLY ACS NH. Delivery of IDE intervention: HMLY MD. Clinical governance: JOB. Research governance: ACS. Supervision and mentorship: NH JOB ACS JF.