OBJECTIVELY MEASURED PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LEVELS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO PHYSICAL FITNESS/FUNCTION IN HEART FAILURE PATIENTS
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- abstract
- PURPOSE: To describe levels of physical activity (PA) in those with heart failure and a preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), examine the relationship of PA levels to other physical fitness/functional measures, and determine if there are significant differences between objectively measured PA levels and well-established prognostic measures in this population.
- subject
- Accelerometer
- Diastolic Heart Failure
- Physical Activity
- Physical Function
- contributor
- Brubaker, Peter H (committee chair)
- Berry, Michael J (committee member)
- Miller, Gary D (committee member)
- date
- 2011-07-14T20:36:32Z (accessioned)
- 2012-07-14T08:30:18Z (available)
- 2011 (issued)
- degree
- Health and Exercise Science (discipline)
- embargo
- 2012-07-14 (terms)
- identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10339/33503 (uri)
- language
- en (iso)
- publisher
- Wake Forest University
- title
- OBJECTIVELY MEASURED PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LEVELS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO PHYSICAL FITNESS/FUNCTION IN HEART FAILURE PATIENTS
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- Thesis