Exercise intolerance in chronic heart failure: The role of cortisol and the catabolic state

Current Heart Failure Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 70-79

  Tzanis, Georgios ^a   Dimopoulos, Stavros ^a   Agapitou, Varvara ^a   Nanas, Serafim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cachexia; Catabolism; Chronic heart failure; Cortisol; Exercise intolerance; Hormones; Myopathy; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CACHEXIA; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOPULMONARY EXERCISE TEST; CATABOLISM; CHRONOTROPISM; EXERCISE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART FAILURE; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MYOPATHY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STRESS;

CACHEXIA; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MUSCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 84896704757     PISSN: 15469530     EISSN: 15469549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11897-013-0177-1     Document Type: Article

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