Upper and lower extremity muscle strength levels associated with an exercise capacity of 5 metabolic equivalents in male patients with heart failure

Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 85-91

  Izawa, Kazuhiro P ^a   Watanabe, Satoshi ^a   Oka, Koichiro ^b   Hiraki, Koji ^a   Morio, Yuji ^a   Kasahara, Yusuke ^a   Watanabe, Yosuke ^a   Katata, Hironobu ^a   Osada, Naohiko ^c   Omiya, Kazuto ^c  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

exercise capacity; heart failure; lower extremity muscle strength; upper extremity muscle strength

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXERCISE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; GRIP STRENGTH; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC EQUIVALENT; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HAND STRENGTH; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; ROC CURVE; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84858192575     PISSN: 19327501     EISSN: 1932751X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HCR.0b013e31824bd886     Document Type: Article

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