Heart transplant recipients may improve fitness and conduct of meetings of high intensity

Heart transplant recipient "of the heart, fitness of the respiratory tract is approximately 30 to 50 percent less than the age concerted sedentary people healthy. As a result, the exercise of the rehabilitation would be very important of these patients, and one of the University of Alberta study shows that the improvement of their general physical condition.

Mark Haykowsky at the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, has the largest randomized study in the exercise of the intervention of heart patients in the April issue of American Journal of Transplantation. The study involved 43 participants, half inside and half on a training program for 12 weeks from starting. He noted that the exercise improves cardiovascular and respiratory fitness, muscle mass and maximum force, surprising, but no training to improve the performance of the heart or blood vessel function. This improved perception of the size of muscle mass, but also hardened blood vessels and the heart is able to meet and relax, you do not improve.

The results of the study show that people considered "long term after transplantation are trainierbar. The results have also provided a springboard for Dwight Kröning the recipient of the first heart transplant, an Ironman triathlon (2.4 miles swimming, 112 miles biking and 26 miles of course). And the inspiration in both directions, as Haykowsky referred to training and his first marathon because of its own determination Kroening