title: An overall view of physical exercise prescription and training monitoring for heart failure patients.
abstract: Physical training for chronic heart failure (CHF) patients is well known in the scientific realm, although there are many different methods of physical exercise prescribed and different ways of monitoring such training. The object of this review is to discuss prescription and monitoring methods of physical exercise for CHF patients.
authors.affiliation: Laboratório de Insuficiência Cardíaca e Transplante do Instituto do Coraçāo do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP (InCor HC-FMUSP), São Paulo, Brazil. vitor.carvalho@usp.br
authors.forename: Vitor Oliveira
authors.initials: VO
authors.lastname: Carvalho
authors.forename: Guilherme Veiga
authors.initials: GV
authors.lastname: Guimarães
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005081:Exercise Therapy / Q000379:methods; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D006875:Hydrotherapy; D010349:Patient Compliance; D016896:Treatment Outcome