Does short-term exercise intervention improve cardiovascular functions and quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure?
Short-term aerobic exercise, alone or combined with resistance training, improves aerobic capacity in chronic heart failure patients, though it does not significantly alter ventricular structure or systolic blood pressure.
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to comprehensively evaluate the effect of short-term exercise intervention on the cardiovascular functions and quality of life (QoL) of patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). METHODS: This meta-analysis was analyzed using RevMan5.3 and Stata 13.0. The parameters of cardiovascular functions and QoL were assessed. Weighted mean differences and their corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were computed for continuous variables. RESULTS: = 17%) prior to and after short-term exercise. CONCLUSION: Aerobic exercise and aerobic with resistance exercise can significantly improve the aerobic capacity of CHF patients, whereas resistance exercise cannot. The improvement in aerobic capacity caused by aerobic exercise and aerobic with resistance exercise decreases with age. Systolic blood pressure and ventricle structures and functions of CHF patients show no significant changes after the short-term exercise intervention.
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