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Published in: Heart Failure Reviews 1/2008

01-02-2008

Introduction: exercise in patients with chronic heart failure

Authors: Steven J. Keteyian, William E. Kraus

Published in: Heart Failure Reviews | Issue 1/2008

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Excerpt

The treatment of patients with chronic heart failure represents a dynamic clinical responsibility that combines the use of agents which date back decades (if not centuries) with more contemporary medical and device therapies, all aimed at preventing death, lessening hospitalizations, and improving both physical function and quality of life. Yet, the search for new agents or treatments aimed at further improving upon these endpoints continues at an unyielding pace, because the clinical, public health, and economic burdens imposed today by heart failure are uncompromising and continue to rise. …
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Metadata
Title
Introduction: exercise in patients with chronic heart failure
Authors
Steven J. Keteyian
William E. Kraus
Publication date
01-02-2008
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Heart Failure Reviews / Issue 1/2008
Print ISSN: 1382-4147
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7322
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10741-007-9049-7

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