Exercise training in women with heart disease: Influence of hormone replacement therapy

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 185-192

  Kirwan, Lori D ^a   Mertens, Don J ^a   Kavanagh, Terence ^a   Thomas, Scott G ^a   Goodman, Jack M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Cardiac output; Cardiac rehabilitation; Exercise; Female; Rebreathe technique; Strain gauge plethysmography; Stroke volume

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN PLUS MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; PIPERAZINE ESTRONE SULFATE; PROGESTERONE;

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; ANAEROBIC THRESHOLD; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART REHABILITATION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; POSTMENOPAUSE; Q WAVE; REST; STRAIN GAUGE TRANSDUCER; WORKLOAD;

AGED; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL FITNESS; POSTMENOPAUSE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037316892     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.MSS.0000048670.61339.68     Document Type: Article

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