Resistance exercise training increases muscle strength, endurance, and blood flow in patients with chronic heart failure.
Resistance exercise training was well tolerated in patients with stable, chronic heart failure, resulting in increased strength and endurance, and lower oxygen consumption at submaximum workloads but no improvement in VO2peak. There was also a significant increase in basal forearm blood flow following this form of exercise training.
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Department of Cardiology, Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, Melbourne, Australia. hare@austin.unimelb.edu.au
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Wrigley
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D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005081:Exercise Therapy; D005260:Female; D005542:Forearm / Q000098:blood supply; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D010807:Physical Endurance; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012123:Pulmonary Ventilation; D012039:Regional Blood Flow