Exercise serves as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool to understand and potentially modulate the molecular mechanisms of cardiac aging and exercise intolerance in older adults.
This review highlights the role of exercise as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool to understand and modulate cardiac aging phenotypes.
Aging induces structural and functional changes in the heart that are associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease and impaired functional capacity in the elderly. Exercise is a diagnostic and therapeutic tool, with the potential to provide insights into clinical diagnosis and prognosis, as well as the molecular mechanisms by which aging influences cardiac physiology and function. In this review, we first provide an overview of how aging impacts the cardiac response to exercise, and the implications this has for functional capacity in older adults. We then review the underlying molecular mechanisms by which cardiac aging contributes to exercise intolerance, and conversely how exercise training can potentially modulate aging phenotypes in the heart. Finally, we highlight the potential use of these exercise models to complement models of disease in efforts to uncover new therapeutic targets to prevent or treat heart disease in the aging population.
Roh et al. (Thu,) conducted a review in Cardiac aging. Exercise was evaluated. Exercise serves as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool to understand and potentially modulate the molecular mechanisms of cardiac aging and exercise intolerance in older adults.
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