Exercise Therapy for Elderly Heart Failure Patients

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 221-234

  Fleg, Jerome L ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; ANGIOTENSIN; ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; CATECHOLAMINE; CREATINE PHOSPHATE; DIGITALIS; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; OXYGEN; VASOPRESSIN;

AEROBIC CAPACITY; AGING; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTHRITIS; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY RISK; DEFIBRILLATOR; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; GERIATRICS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART REHABILITATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KINESIOTHERAPY; LUNG DISEASE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; REVIEW; SMOOTH MUSCLE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGED; CLINICAL TRIALS; EXERCISE; EXERCISE THERAPY; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33751180115     PISSN: 07490690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cger.2006.08.011     Document Type: Review

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