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Physical training in patients with chronic heart failure improves exercise capacity and symptoms without impairing left ventricular function, though large-scale trials are needed to assess mortality.
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Does physical training improve symptoms and exercise capacity in patients with chronic heart failure?
Does physical training improve symptoms and exercise capacity in patients with chronic heart failure?
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This editorial highlights that physical training improves symptoms and exercise capacity in chronic heart failure primarily through peripheral adaptations, advocating for its broader clinical application while calling for large-scale mortality trials.
Physical training as a therapeutic measure in chronic heart failure: time for recommendations Over the past decade, traditional medical teaching and advice regarding physical activity in patients with chronic cardiac disease have changed.It is now believed that bed rest and exercise restriction may lead to deconditioning and increased morbidity.Recent studies dealing with both asymptomatic patients with left ventricular dysfunction and patients with symptomatic heart failure support this concept.This has been incorporated in medical knowledge, but so far only marginally applied in clinical practice.
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Luigi Tavazzi (2001) conducted an editorial in Chronic heart failure. Physical training vs. Usual lifestyle was evaluated. Physical training in patients with chronic heart failure improves exercise capacity and symptoms without impairing left ventricular function, though large-scale trials are needed to assess mortality.
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