Tuesday, May 12, 2009
More Evidence For The Benefit Of Exercise In Cardiovascular Disease -- And Even In Heart Failure
ScienceDaily (May 12, 2009) — Exercise is one of eight preventive measures identified by the European Heart Health Charter and features prominently in the scientific programme of EuroPRevent 2009, the congress of the European Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, which takes place in Stockholm, Sweden, from May 6 to 9. In new studies presented at the congress exercise is shown to improve markers of heart disease in patients following coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG), to improve event-free survival rate in coronary patients better than stent angioplasty, and to improve markers of disease in heart failure patients, a group usually thought amenable to little more than palliative care.
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