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SOUTHMONT — A chance sighting of some abandoned window shutters on the side of the road was all it took for Danny Townsend to find a hobby that carried him

Since boosting heart rate during exercise didn’t have any benefits, guidelines might need to change, one expert says.

Wake Forest School of Medicine has been awarded a five-year federal grant targeting cardiac rehabilitation that could be worth up to $30 million.

The National Institute of Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, recently awarded Wake Forest University School of Medicine a five-year grant expected to total $30 million to support research to test a novel rehabilitation program designed for older patients hospitalized for acute heart failure.

 E-Mail WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - May 16, 2021 - Heart failure (HF) - when the heart cant pump enough blood and oxygen through the body - affects approximately 6.2 million adults in the United States and is the primary cause of hospitalization in the elderly. Unfortunately, older adults with heart failure often have poor outcomes resulting in reduced quality of life, high mortality and frequent rehospitalizations. Despite many efforts to improve the prognosis in these patients, most previous stud...

email article High-intensity interval training (HIIT) did not beat traditional exercise in raising exercise capacity for sedentary patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), according to the OptimEx-Clin trial. HIIT and moderate continuous training groups yielded similar improvements in peak oxygen consumption (VO 2) from baseline to 3 months (+1.1 vs +1.6 mL/kg/min) -- both too modest to meet a prespecified minimal clinically-important threshold in comparison...