Exercise and Diet as Therapy for Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction

Exercise capacity is markedly reduced in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, due to cardiac, vascular, and skeletal muscle factors. Both exercise training and dietary weight loss improve exercise capacity and quality of life, and the improvements are associated with improvements in systemic inflammation, body composition, and mitochondrial function. Hospitalized patients with acute HFpEF have the most severe impairments, and appear to respond well to a novel rehab intervention. Guest: Dalane W. Kitzman, MD Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Geriatrics Kermit G. Phillips II Chair in Cardiology Wake Forest School of Medicine This presentation is co-sponsored by the Northwestern Pepper Center, which is housed within IPHAM's Center for Applied Health Research on Aging. For the upcoming schedule of the IPHAM public health series, visit: https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu...