Exercise training in heart failure

Current Heart Failure Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 33-40

  Piepoli, Massimo F ^a  

^a GUGLIELMO DA SALICETO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DYSPNEA; EXERCISE; FATIGUE; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART PROTECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG VENTILATION; META ANALYSIS; MITOCHONDRION; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE METABOLISM; MUSCLE REFLEX; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 33750311415     PISSN: 15469530     EISSN: 15469549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11897-006-0029-3     Document Type: Review

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