Exercise Training Improves Heart Rate Variability in Older Patients With Heart Failure: A Randomized, Controlled, Single-Blinded Trial

Congestive Heart Failure

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 192-197

  Murad, Khalil ^a   Brubaker, Peter H ^b   Fitzgerald, David M ^c   Morgan, Timothy M ^a   Goff Jr , David C ^a   Soliman, Elsayed Z ^a   Eggebeen, Joel D ^a   Kitzman, Dalane W ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART REDUCED EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

EID: 84864058299     PISSN: 15275299     EISSN: 17517133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7133.2011.00282.x     Document Type: Article

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