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May 4, 2013AJP Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Rat model of exercise-induced cardiac hypertrophy: hemodynamic characterization using left ventricular pressure-volume analysis

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Key result

Swim training in rats induced left ventricular hypertrophy and improved ejection fraction (73.7% vs. 64.1%, P<0.01) and contractility compared to untrained controls.

Authors

TRTamás RadovitsHeart Failure & TransplantAOAttila OláhSemmelweis UniversityÁLÁrpád LuxInterventional / Structural Cardiology

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Implication

Supports exercise-induced LV remodeling in rats; hypothesis-generating for human translation.

PICO

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Population
Exercise-induced cardiac hypertrophy
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Intervention / Comparator
Swim training vs Untrained control rats
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Primary Outcome
Left ventricular ejection fraction, p=<0.01

Main Result

Absolute Event Rate: 73.7% vs 64.1%

p-value: p=<0.01

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Radovits et al. (2013) studied Exercise-induced cardiac hypertrophy. Swim training vs. Untrained control rats was evaluated on Left ventricular ejection fraction (p=<0.01). Swim training in rats induced left ventricular hypertrophy and improved ejection fraction (73.7% vs. 64.1%, P<0.01) and contractility compared to untrained controls.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0d8e951e1a6dfdb4baa36bhttps://doi.org/10.1152/ajpheart.00108.2013
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