Recommendations for physical activity, recreation sport, and exercise training in paediatric patients with congenital heart disease: A report from the Exercise, Basic & Translational Research Section of the European Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, the European Congenital Heart and Lung Exercise Group, and the Association for European Paediatric Cardiology

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1034-1065

  Takken, T ^a   Giardini, A ^b   Reybrouck, T ^c   Gewillig, M ^c   Hovels Gurich H H ^d   Longmuir, P E ^e,f,g   McCrindle, B W ^e   Paridon, S M ^h   Hager, A ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^e HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^g CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

ⁱ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease; exercise; physical activity; physiology; training

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC EXERCISE; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA SUPRAVALVULAR STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; AUTONOMIC INNERVATION; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CHILD CARE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CYANOSIS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EBSTEIN ANOMALY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EISENMENGER COMPLEX; ENDURANCE TRAINING; EXERCISE; EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FITNESS; FONTAN PROCEDURE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INJURY; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC OBSTRUCTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; MARFAN SYNDROME; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULMONARY VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RESISTANCE TRAINING; REVIEW; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SPORT; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME; CARDIOLOGY; CHILD; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; EUROPE; KINESIOTHERAPY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PEDIATRICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RECREATION; STANDARD;

CARDIOLOGY; CHILD; EUROPE; EXERCISE; EXERCISE THERAPY; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; PEDIATRICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PUBLIC HEALTH; RECREATION; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SPORTS; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84873256387     PISSN: 20474873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1741826711420000     Document Type: Review

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