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In patients with congestive heart failure, both upper-limb and lower-limb muscle strength decrease with increasing disease severity and are significant predictors of exercise capacity. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

October 16, 2007American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Muscle Strength in Relation to Disease Severity in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure

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Population

102 patients with stable congestive heart failure, mean age 61.4 +/- 10.2 years, 93 men, with left…

Design

Cross-sectional

Authors

KIKazuhiro P. IzawaFukuoka Institute of Technology SWSatoshi WatanabeNorthwestern University HYHitoshi YokoyamaNational Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience

Discussion

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Implication

Muscle strength associates with VO2peak and NYHA class in stable HFrEF; hypothesis-generating for strength interventions.

Structured PICO

Population

102 patients with stable congestive heart failure (CHF), mean age 61.4 +/- 10.2 years, 93 men, with left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) <40% by echocardiography. Divided by NYHA class: class I (n = 39), class II (n = 49), and class III (n = 14).

Outcome

Differences in VO2peak and muscle strength indices (grip strength and knee extensor and flexor muscle strength) with disease severity (NYHA class) and their correlationsurrogate

In patients with stable heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, both upper and lower limb muscle strength correlate positively with peak oxygen uptake (VO2peak) and inversely with NYHA functional class.

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Izawa et al. (2007) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a19611ec05413006f5841b0 https://doi.org/10.1097/phm.0b013e318154b592

Topics

Heart failure HFrEF treatment

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