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Exercise Training in Coronary Heart Disease

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Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation

Abstract

Regular physical exercise and a high exercise capacity have been hallmarks of health and vitality for millennia and were associated with a distinct survival advantage in a hostile environment. In the modern civilized environment it is usually not the external enemy who is to be defeated. One of the enemies of survival is lack of physical activity and the resulting decreased physical fitness: both emerge once again as enemies of survival, this time in an all too friendly and comfortable environment.

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  1. Klinische Kardiologie II, Herz-Zentrum Bad Krozingen, Germany

    Helmut Gohlke FACC, FESC

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  1. Public Health Department, Kalmar County, Oskarshamn, Sweden

    Joep Perk FESC

  2. Klinische Kardiologie II, Herz-Zentrum Bad Krozingen, Germany

    Helmut Gohlke FACC, FESC

  3. Institute of Health Sciences Department of Earth Sciences, Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Irene Hellemans MD, (Speciality Cardiology), PhD

  4. Department of Cardiology, Vrije University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Irene Hellemans MD, (Speciality Cardiology), PhD

  5. Hôpital Broussais-HEGP, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France

    Philippe Sellier MD

  6. Department of Cardiology, Technical University of Munich Munich Rehabilitation Center, München, Germany

    Peter Mathes MD, FACC, FESC

  7. Cardiac Rehabilitation Center, Bois Gilbert, Ballan Miré, France

    Catherine Monpère MD

  8. Department of Psychology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

    Hannah McGee BA(Mod), PhD, RegPsycholFPsSI

  9. Swiss Cardiovascular Center Bern Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation University, Hospital Inselspital, Switzerland

    Hugo Saner MD

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Gohlke, H. (2007). Exercise Training in Coronary Heart Disease. In: Perk, J., et al. Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-502-8_17

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