PMID- 11416494
OWN - NLM
STAT- Publisher
LR  - 20191120
IS  - 1751-715X (Electronic)
IS  - 1076-7460 (Linking)
VI  - 8
IP  - 2
DP  - 1999 Mar
TI  - Chronic Heart Failure and Cardiac Rehabilitation for the Elderly: Is It 
      Beneficial?
PG  - 80-86
AB  - Heart failure is a common health problem among persons at or above 65 years of 
      age. To date, no data exist describing to what extent, if any, cardiac 
      rehabilitation or exercise training might be useful in this population. Fourteen 
      randomized trials involving mostly heart failure patients less than 65 years of 
      age showed that exercise training improves exercise tolerance and reverses, in 
      part, abnormalities in both autonomic function and skeletal muscle histology and 
      biochemistry. Based on these trials, the use of exercise training in older 
      persons with New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class II or III heart failure 
      appears to be a safe and effective adjunctive therapy. Exercise trials involving 
      patients with heart failure at or above 65 years of age are necessary. (c)1999 by 
      CVRR, Inc.
FAU - Keteyian, Steven J
AU  - Keteyian SJ
AD  - Henry Ford Heart and Vascular Institute and the Department of Internal Medicine, 
      Detroit, MI.
FAU - Brawner, Clinton A
AU  - Brawner CA
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Am J Geriatr Cardiol
JT  - The American journal of geriatric cardiology
JID - 9215283
EDAT- 2001/06/21 10:00
MHDA- 2001/06/21 10:00
CRDT- 2001/06/21 10:00
PHST- 2001/06/21 10:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2001/06/21 10:00 [medline]
PHST- 2001/06/21 10:00 [entrez]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Am J Geriatr Cardiol. 1999 Mar;8(2):80-86.