Why the study?
Does early swimming exercise improve or adversely affect left ventricular remodeling in rats after experimental myocardial infarction?
Population
94 rats with experimental myocardial infarction or sham operation
Comparison
Swimming exercise twice daily for 2 weeks… vs No exercise
Design
Preclinical, allocated randomly
Follow-up
3 weeks post-surgery
Authors
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Early swimming appears neutral on rat post-MI remodeling; hypothesis-generating and should not yet guide human practice.
Does early swimming exercise improve or adversely affect left ventricular remodeling in rats after experimental myocardial infarction?
In a rat model of myocardial infarction, early swimming exercise did not adversely affect left ventricular remodeling.
Alhaddad et al. (1998) studied this question.
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