Cardiac performance

TUESDAY, April 8 (HealthDay News) — Moderate exercise, of just four weeks, is enough to improve the cardiac performance and breathing capacity of patients with heart failure, a new study suggests.

Experimental Biology conference

This a little strenuous exercise program — in customary use in Europe among the people with heart failure — works at least as well as the less intense American schedule, the researchers found.They presented theses discoveries on Tuesday at the Experimental Biology conference in San Diego.

The heart gradually loses the ability to pump blood in heart failure. In the United States, doctors normally suggest three times in a week exercise sessions for eight to 12 weeks to ease the condition, stated by the study author Stephen F. Crouse, a professor of kinesiology and internal medicine at Texas A&M University, in College Station.