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Exercise training for older chronic heart failure patients

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2005

Miles D Witham  and
Marion ET McMurdo
Miles D Witham
Affiliation:
Section of Ageing and Health, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
Marion ET McMurdo
Affiliation:
Section of Ageing and Health, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
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Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) is a disease of older people. The prevalence of the disease increases with age, reaching over 10% in those aged 80 and above. Not only does heart failure carry a burden of mortality worse than many cancers, it also severely impairs function and quality of life and is a leading cause of hospitalization in older people. Heart failure cost the British National Health Service £360 million in 1990–91; the cost is estimated to have doubled in the last decade.

Type
Research Article
Information
Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , February 2004 , pp. 55 - 61
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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