Heart Transplant Recipients Can Improve Fitness And Perform High Intensity Workouts
Sunday, July 12, 2009 - 23:14
in Health & Medicine
Heart transplant recipients' cardio-respiratory fitness is around 30 to 50 percent lower than age-matched healthy sedentary individuals. As a result, exercise rehabilitation should be very important to these patients, and a new study shows they can improve their overall physical fitness.
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