Key result
A 12-week unsupervised walking programme significantly improved heart rate recovery (p < 0.001) and perceived quality of life (p < 0.02) in patients with chronic heart failure.
Why the study?
Does a 12-week unsupervised walking programme improve heart rate recovery, endothelial modulators, and quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure?
Population
28 stabilized chronic heart failure patients of NYHA class II and III, and 10 age-matched healthy volunteers.
Comparison
12-week unsupervised walking programme… vs Non-exercise group (n=10).
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
12 weeks
Authors
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Supports unsupervised walking benefits in chronic HF; hypothesis-generating, needs RCTs before practice change.
Cohort (n=38)
Does a 12-week unsupervised walking programme improve heart rate recovery, endothelial modulators, and quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure?
p-value: p=<0.001
A 12-week unsupervised walking program improves heart rate recovery, attenuates endothelial damage markers, and enhances perceived quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure.
Tsarouhas et al. (2011) conducted a cohort in Chronic heart failure (CHF) (n=38). Unsupervised walking programme vs. Non-exercise was evaluated on Heart rate recovery (HRR), serum modulators of endothelial function, markers of inflammation and oxidative stress, and quality of life measures (p=<0.001). A 12-week unsupervised walking programme significantly improved heart rate recovery (p < 0.001) and perceived quality of life (p < 0.02) in patients with chronic heart failure.
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