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(Chest. 1992;101:231S-235S.)
© 1992 American College of Chest Physicians

The Benefit of Graded Physical Exercise in Chronic Heart Failure

Michel Koch M.D.1; H. Douard M.D.1; and J-P Broustet M.D.1

1 The Department of Clinical Cardiology, Haut-Lévêque Cardiological Hospital, Pessac, France.

Physical training for patients with chronic heart failure means an increase in muscular strength and better adaptation to effort through a purely peripheral action. The risks appear to be very slight if the exercises are adapted to patients who have been carefully selected and who are carefully monitored. The results of the functional improvement of patients with chronic heart failure greatly outweigh those of any drug therapy. [SEE THE FIG. 3 AND 4 IN SOURCE PDF]






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