Why the study?
Does an 18-week high-intensity resistance training program improve skeletal muscle structure and function in elderly patients with heart failure?
Population
24 sedentary elderly individuals (10 with heart failure and 14 controls)
Comparison
18-week high-intensity resistance training… vs Pre-training baseline and untrained controls
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
18 weeks
Authors
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May support resistance training for muscle function in elderly HF; hypothesis-generating and requires RCTs before practice change.
Does an 18-week high-intensity resistance training program improve skeletal muscle structure and function in elderly patients with heart failure?
High-intensity resistance training improves whole muscle function and corrects cellular myofilament deficits in elderly patients with heart failure.
Toth et al. (2011) studied this question.
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