Benefits of Tai Chi in chronic heart failure: Body or mind?

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 117, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 611-612

  Ades, Philip A ^a,c   Wu, Ge ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^c FLETCHER ALLEN HEALTH CARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE; FITNESS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LEG MUSCLE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TAI CHI; YOGA;

CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; TAI JI; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 4644291924     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2004.08.001     Document Type: Editorial

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