Key result
A 12-week exercise training intervention significantly improved role physical, role emotional, mental functioning, and mood compared with standard pharmacologic therapy in heart failure patients.
Why the study?
Does a 12-week exercise training intervention improve quality of life, functional status, and mood in heart failure patients receiving maximum pharmacologic therapy?
RCT (n=23)
randomized
Does a 12-week exercise training intervention improve quality of life, functional status, and mood in heart failure patients receiving maximum pharmacologic therapy?
A 12-week exercise training program provides adjunctive benefits in role and mental functioning for heart failure patients on maximum pharmacologic therapy.
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Supports adding exercise training to maximal pharmacologic therapy in heart failure; extends evidence for adjunctive benefits on role and mental functioning.
The purpose of this pilot study was to test the adjunctive effects of a 12-week exercise training intervention vs. standard pharmacologic therapy on quality of life, functional status, and mood in heart failure patients. A randomized, two-group repeated measures design was used to test outcomes at baseline and 12 weeks in 23 subjects (ejection fraction <or=40%, standard pharmacologic therapy [diuretics, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, b blockers, and digoxin] and no change in medical therapy for 30 days). The exercise group had significantly higher adjusted means on the role physical, role emotional, and mental functioning subscales of the Medical Outcomes Study 36-item Short-Form Health Survey compared with the control group. Confusion/bewilderment (Profile of Mood States subscale) adjusted mean scores were significantly lower for the exercise group, indicating better mood compared with the control group. Exercise training provided adjunctive benefit in terms of role and mental functioning for these heart failure patients.
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Pozehl et al. (2003) conducted an RCT in heart failure (n=23). exercise training vs. standard pharmacologic therapy was evaluated on quality of life, functional status, and mood. A 12-week exercise training intervention significantly improved role physical, role emotional, mental functioning, and mood compared with standard pharmacologic therapy in heart failure patients.
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