The Claim
In patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, 12 months of combined endurance and resistance exercise training likely improves peak oxygen consumption (VO2peak) compared with usual care, achieving a mean between-group difference of 1.3 ml/kg/min (95% CI 0.4–2.1) at 12 months, even though the primary composite outcome was negative.
What the research says
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For people with heart failure with a preserved ejection fraction, a 12-month exercise program that includes both endurance and resistance training improves cardiorespiratory fitness, raising peak oxygen consumption by an average of 1.3 ml/kg/min compared with standard care.
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In patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, 12 months of combined endurance and resistance exercise training likely improves peak oxygen consumption (VO2peak) relative to usual care, with a mean between-group difference of 1.3 ml/kg/min (95% CI 0.4–2.1) at 12 months. This clinically meaningful improvement in cardiorespiratory fitness occurred despite the negative primary composite outcome and suggests exercise training can improve a key physiological limitation in HFpEF.
Exercise training makes the muscles in the body change. They grow more tiny blood vessels and more energy-producing parts inside the muscle cells. The muscles also get bigger and stronger. These changes let the muscles pull more oxygen out of the blood, so the whole body can use more oxygen during exercise.
What the research says
1 studyThe study showed that people with heart failure who did a year of exercise were able to use more oxygen during exercise than those who didn't, and the improvement was about the same size as the claim says.
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