Exercise Training in Patients with Heart Disease: Review of Beneficial Effects and Clinical Recommendations

Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 347-355

  Gielen, Stephan ^a   Laughlin, M Harold ^b   O'Conner, Christopher ^c   Duncker, Dirk J ^d  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITÄT HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Exercise training; Heart disease; Heart failure; Pulmonary hypertension; Valvular heart disease

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC CAPACITY; AEROBIC EXERCISE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CARDIOMEGALY; CHRONIC THROMBOEMBOLIC PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ENDOTHELIAL PROGENITOR CELL; ENDURANCE TRAINING; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HEART DISEASE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART FAILURE WITH PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE WITH REDUCED EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART REHABILITATION; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MORTALITY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE MASS; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESISTANCE TRAINING; RISK REDUCTION; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; HEART DISEASES; HEART STROKE VOLUME; KINESIOTHERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

EXERCISE THERAPY; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 84920167367     PISSN: 00330620     EISSN: 18731740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcad.2014.10.001     Document Type: Article

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