Why the study?
Does immersion in warm water improve acute cardiac function in elderly patients with chronic heart failure?
Population
13 elderly patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) and 13 healthy subjects (total n=26)
Comparison
Immersion and peripheral muscle training in a… vs Measurements taken on land and healthy control…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
Acute (during immersion and exercise)
Authors
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Acute warm water immersion was associated with improved hemodynamics in CHF; hypothesis-generating for aquatic exercise, randomized trials needed.
Does immersion in warm water improve acute cardiac function in elderly patients with chronic heart failure?
Warm water immersion acutely improves early diastolic filling, stroke volume, and ejection fraction in patients with chronic heart failure, providing a physiological basis for the tolerability of aquatic exercise in this population.
Cider et al. (2005) studied this question.
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