Comparing master athletes to age-matched patients with a coronary heart disease, to age-matched patients with a diastolic heart failure and to age-matched untrained elderly people without a coronary heart disease or a heart failure, it could be shown that there is a significant inverse correlation between the echocardiographic determined diastolic heart function, measured as E/e’ septal, and the exercise capacity, assessed as VO2peak. Lifelong physical exercise seems to have a positive effect on the diastolic heart function in elderly people.
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Comparing master athletes to age-matched patients with a coronary heart disease, to age-matched patients with a diastolic heart failure and to age-matched untrained elderly people without a coronary heart disease or a heart failure, it could be shown that there is a significant inverse correlation between the echocardiographic determined diastolic heart function, measured as E/e’ septal, and the exercise capacity, assessed as VO2peak. Lifelong physical exercise seems to have a positive effect on...
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