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Diet & Lifestyle
Exercise
Research
Heart rate capabilities
improved by exercise programme
Patients having a reduced supply of blood
(ischaemic heart disease) have a less favourable prognosis due in part to
their reduced heart rate.
Physical exercise, although not proven, is
definitely associated with modifying these risk factors. Researchers at
the Department of Physical Therapy, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
examined how exercise could increase physical capacity and heart rate in
elderly patients recovering from an acute coronary event.
ECG recordings were taken from 65 patients over 3
months. At the 3 month follow-up, exercise tolerance and exercise
capability was found to have increased substantially in the training group
than in those not practising the exercises. The day and night-time heart
rates were also found to have increased significantly in the training
group.
The result of this study confirm that carrying
out a regular aerobic training programme can alter and significantly
improve exercise capacity, modify heart rate variability leading to a more
favourable prognosis in patients recovering from an acute coronary event.
Reference :Aerobic
group training improves exercise capacity and heart rate variability
in elderly patients with a recent coronary event. A randomized
controlled study [see comments} St^ahle A;
Nordlander R; Bergfeldt L Eur Heart J,
20:1638-46, 1999 Nov
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