Stair descending exercise increases muscle strength in elderly males with chronic heart failure

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Theodorou, Anastasios A ^a,b   Panayiotou, George ^a   Paschalis, Vassilis ^a,b,c   Nikolaidis, Michalis G ^b,c   Kyparos, Antonios ^b   Mademli, Lida ^b   Grivas, Gerasimos V ^b   Vrabas, Ioannis S ^b  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE AND REHABILITATION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aging; Chronic heart failure; Eccentric exercise; Muscle strength; Sarcopenia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; EXERCISE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; EXERCISE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874702530     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-6-87     Document Type: Article

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