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Standardised Exercise Prescription for Patients with Chronic Coronary Syndrome and/or Heart Failure: A Consensus Statement from the EXPERT Working Group
Whereas exercise training, as part of multidisciplinary rehabilitation, is a key component in the management of patients with chronic coronary syndrome (CCS) and/or congestive heart failure (CHF), physicians a...
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Software development to standardize the clinical diagnosis of exercise oscillatory ventilation in heart failure
Exercise oscillatory ventilation (EOV) is characterized by periodic oscillations of minute ventilation during cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET). Despite its prognostic value in chronic heart failure (HF)...
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The influence of a single transcranial direct current stimulation session on physical fitness in healthy subjects: a systematic review
Physical fitness is of indisputable importance for both health, and sports. Currently, the brain is being increasingly recognized as a contributor to physical fitness. Hereby, transcranial direct current stimu...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design and Initial Evaluation of Technology-Supported Shared Decision Making for Secondary Prevention in Cardiac Patients in the CoroPrevention Project
Secondary prevention is recommended after a cardiac event to stimulate recovery and reduce the risk of recurrent events. To optimize the results and support the patients to actively play a part in the preventi...
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Impact of continuous vs. interval training on oxygen extraction and cardiac function during exercise in type 2 diabetes mellitus
Exercise training improves exercise capacity in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). It remains to be elucidated whether such improvements result from cardiac or peripheral muscular adaptations, and whether these ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The SharedHeart Approach: Technology-Supported Shared Decision Making to Increase Physical Activity in Cardiac Patients
After a cardiac event, patients typically enroll in a cardiac rehabilitation program in a rehabilitation center, where physiotherapists guide them in overcoming their fear to move and increasing physical activ...
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Asymptomatic type 2 diabetes mellitus display a reduced myocardial deformation but adequate response during exercise
The development of myocardial fibrosis is a major complication of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), impairing myocardial deformation and, therefore, cardiac performance. It remains to be established whether abn...
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Critical Reappraisal of the Role and Importance of Exercise Intervention in the Treatment of Obesity in Adults
In the treatment of obesity in adults, exercise intervention is recommended and some people with obesity even prefer exercise above dietary intervention as a single weight-loss strategy. However, evidence is a...
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Endurance Exercise Intervention Is Beneficial to Kidney Function in a Rat Model of Isolated Abdominal Venous Congestion: a Pilot Study
In this study, the effects of moderate intense endurance exercise on heart and kidney function and morphology were studied in a thoracic inferior vena cava constricted (IVCc) rat model of abdominal venous cong...
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Towards Optimized Care After Bariatric Surgery by Physical Activity and Exercise Intervention: a Review
Although there is growing evidence on the importance of physical activity and exercise intervention after bariatric surgery, it remains to be clarified as to why and how post-operative exercise intervention sh...
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Exercise intervention in hospitalized heart failure patients, with emphasis on congestion-related complications: a review
The importance of physical activity has become evident since a sedentary lifestyle drives cardiovascular disease progression and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. The favorable effects of e...
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Chapter
Modalities of Exercise Training in Cardiac Rehabilitation
In order to be able to prescribe exercise in cardiac rehabilitation, a basic understanding of the training principles is mandatory. After discussing the general concepts of exercise prescription (FITT principl...
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Response to letter from Okutucu and Bursa
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The Impact of Different Types of Exercise Training on Peripheral Blood Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Concentrations in Older Adults: A Meta-Analysis
As the prevalence of neurodegenerative diseases (such as dementia) continues to increase due to population aging, it is mandatory to understand the role of exercise for maintaining/improving brain health.
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Cardiac function in adolescents with obesity: cardiometabolic risk factors and impact on physical fitness
To gain greater insights in the etiology and clinical consequences of altered cardiac function in obese adolescents. Therefore, we aimed to examine cardiac structure and function in obese adolescents, and to e...
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Open AccessCurrent animal models for the study of congestion in heart failure: an overview
Congestion (i.e., backward failure) is an important culprit mechanism driving disease progression in heart failure. Nevertheless, congestion remains often underappreciated and clinicians underestimate the impo...
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Open AccessHigh intensity training improves cardiac function in healthy rats
Exercise training is a low cost and safe approach for reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease development. Currently, moderate-intensity training (MIT) is the most preferred exercise type. However, high-in...
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Effect of Exercise Intervention on Cardiac Function in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review
The effect of exercise on cardiac function/structure in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) with or without diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM) is not yet completely understood. To date, results of studies have been con...
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Open AccessSelective abdominal venous congestion induces adverse renal and hepatic morphological and functional alterations despite a preserved cardiac function
Venous congestion is an important contributor to worsening renal function in heart failure and the cardiorenal syndrome. In patients, it is difficult to study the effects of isolated venous congestion on organ...
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Exercise Prescription in Patients with Different Combinations of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: A Consensus Statement from the EXPERT Working Group
Whereas exercise training is key in the management of patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk (obesity, diabetes, dyslipidaemia, hypertension), clinicians experience difficulties in how to optimally pr...
