Exercise and heart failure.
This report will review the abnormalities of the peripheral circulation and skeletal muscle which are part of the heart failure syndrome and can limit exercise tolerance; introduce trials that have shown benefits of exercise training in a variety of heart failure patients; suggest strategies for recommending activity training in patients with heart failure. Finally, this report will identify areas where data are missing and where trials are currently being undertaken.
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Section of Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH 44106-5038, USA.
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D005081:Exercise Therapy; D017079:Exercise Tolerance; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans