Exercise training in older patients with Heart failure and preserved ejection fraction: A randomized, controlled, single-blind trial

Circulation: Heart Failure

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 659-667

  Kitzman, Dalane W ^a   Brubaker, Peter H ^b   Morgan, Timothy M ^a   Stewart, Kathryn P ^a   Little, William C ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Exercise; Heart failure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAEROBIC THRESHOLD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; WALKING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANAEROBIC THRESHOLD; EXERCISE THERAPY; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; QUALITY OF LIFE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 78650107559     PISSN: 19413289     EISSN: 19413297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.110.958785     Document Type: Article

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