Moving Heart Failure Forward: from understanding exercise intolerance in heart failure patients, to an individualized rehabilitation prescription to improve the treatment of the disease. Ghent University
Chronic heart failure represents a fundamental health and financial challenge for Flanders and European society. While physical exercise represents a key rehabilitation strategy, up to 50% of patients have been characterized as nonresponders by previous studies for reasons that are still unclear. In this context, research focused for a long time on the central limitations (the heart) as the cause of exercise intolerance in these patients, but ...