Benefit of warm water immersion on biventricular function in patients with chronic heart failure

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Grüner Sveälv, Bente ^a   Cider, Asa ^a   Täng, Margareta Scharin ^a   Angwald, Eva ^a   Kardassis, Dimitris ^a   Andersson, Bert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; HOT WATER; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART PROTECTION; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYDROTHERAPY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SAFETY; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE; THERAPY EFFECT; WATER IMMERSION; WATER TEMPERATURE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEAT; IMMERSION; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARDIAC OUTPUT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; HYDROTHERAPY; IMMERSION; MALE; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68149119100     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14767120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7120-7-33     Document Type: Article

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