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Edelmann, F; Pieske, B.
Diastolic Heart Failure: Diagnosis, Therapy and Impact of Exercise Training
DEUT Z SPORTMED. 2008; 59(9): 192-+.
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- Pieske Burkert Mathias
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- Abstract:
- Heart failure is a major health problem m the community Nearly half the patients suffering from signs and symptoms of heart failure have preserved systolic function and evidence of diastolic dysfunction. Comparable to systolic heart failure, patients with diastolic heart failure are characterised by high morbidity and mortality. Despite the urgent need of therapeutic strategies no evidence-based therapy is established in this condition. Exercise training, as a therapeutic approach, can prevent the age dependent occurrence of diastolic dysfunction. Moreover, there is little published evidence that exercise training may improve clinical outcome in patients with diastolic heart failure. but randomised trials using sufficient endpoints are lacking. Whether exercise training improves exercise capacity quality of life and diastolic function are objectives of the prospective, randomised. controlled Ex-DHF-P study. The preliminary results are promising, but need to be confirmed in a larger trial which also has to investigate the effects of exercise training on prognosis in patients with diastolic heart failure.
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