March 1, 1992Journal of Gerontology
Enhanced Left Ventricular Diastolic Filling Associated With Long-term Endurance Training
Why the study?
Does long-term endurance exercise training improve early left ventricular diastolic filling indices in healthy elderly individuals compared to sedentary elderly individuals?
Population
Healthy young adults, healthy elderly sedentary subjects, and healthy elderly endurance athletes
Comparison
Long-term endurance exercise training vs Sedentary lifestyle and healthy young adults
Design
Cross-sectional
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Discussion
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Implication
Endurance training may preserve early diastolic filling in aging; hypothesis-generating and should not change practice without prospective trials.
Structured PICO
Does long-term endurance exercise training improve early left ventricular diastolic filling indices in healthy elderly individuals compared to sedentary elderly individuals?
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Population
Healthy young adults, healthy elderly sedentary subjects (sedentary old), and healthy elderly endurance athletes (master athletes)
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Intervention
Long-term endurance exercise training (master athletes)
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Comparator
Sedentary lifestyle (sedentary old) and healthy young adults
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Outcome
Early left ventricular diastolic filling indices measured via transmitral pulsed Doppler inflow spectrasurrogate
Long-term endurance training in the elderly is associated with preserved early left ventricular diastolic filling dynamics that resemble those of young adults, mitigating age-related diastolic impairment.
Cite This Study
Forman et al. (1992) studied this question.