Mechanisms by which exercise training benefits patients with heart failure

Nature Reviews Cardiology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 292-300

  Crimi, Ettore ^a   Ignarro, Louis J ^b   Cacciatore, Francesco ^c   Napoli, Claudio ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c IRCCS   (Italy)

^d SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; NEUROHORMONE; NITRIC OXIDE;

AEROBIC EXERCISE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE INTENSITY; HEART FAILURE; HEART PERFORMANCE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; KINESIOTHERAPY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VASODILATATION; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CONVALESCENCE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; MORTALITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EXERCISE THERAPY; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67649644862     PISSN: 17595002     EISSN: 17595010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrcardio.2009.8     Document Type: Review

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