PMID: 25763581Mar 13, 2015Paper

Evaluation of the effectiveness of exercise-based controlled physical effort in women with heart failure in the elderly

Polski merkuriusz lekarski : organ Polskiego Towarzystwa Lekarskiego
Magdalena Andrzejczak-KarbowskaRobert Irzmański

Abstract

Heart failure (HF), especially during old age, significantly influences the decrease in physical fitness, depriving the patient of their independence during everyday life. The positive results of cardiac rehabilitation are one of the most well documented methods of lowering the frequency of hospitalisation and unfavourable prognosis of cardiovascular diseases. Currently complex cardiac rehabilitation is recommended by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American heart Association (AHA) as being an important element of treating patients with HF. However these recommendations are poorly executed in the everyday clinical practise, concerning elderly patients. The aim of study is the assessment of the efficacy of controlled physical activity in elderly women, in their VII-X decades, with stable cardiac failure, based on exercise training. The study included a group of 55 elderly women (mean age 84.73 ± 7.13 tears) with stable heart failure, NYHA II-III. In each patient plasma concentration of B-type natriuretic peptide was measured and a 6 minute walk test (6MWT) was undertaken. In the study group of patients who underwent a 12 weeks of cardiac rehabilitation (72%) a decrease in level of NT-proBNP was observed after comple...Continue Reading

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