Low-Intensity Exercise Training Delays Heart Failure and Improves Survival in Female Hypertensive Heart Failure Rats
- 1 April 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Hypertension
- Vol. 51 (4), 1096-1102
- https://doi.org/10.1161/hypertensionaha.107.107078
Abstract
Exercise training improves functional capacity and quality of life in patients with heart failure. However, the long-term effects of exercise on mortality associated with hypertensive heart disease have not been well defined. In the present study, we investigated the effect of low-intensity exercise training on disease progression and survival in female spontaneously hypertensive heart failure rats. Animals with severe hypertension (16 months old) were treadmill trained (14.5 m/min, 45 min/d, 3 d/wk) until they developed terminal heart failure or were euthanized because of age-related complications. Exercise delayed mortality resulting from heart failure ( P P P <0.05) and a greater mitochondrial content of cardiolipin, a phospholipid that is essential for optimal mitochondrial energy metabolism. In conclusion, low-intensity exercise training significantly delays the onset of heart failure and improves survival in female hypertensive heart failure rats without eliciting sustained improvements in blood pressure, cardiac function, or expression of several myocardial proteins associated with the cardiovascular benefits of exercise. The effects of exercise on cytochrome oxidase and cardiolipin provide novel evidence that training may improve prognosis in hypertensive heart disease by preserving mitochondrial energy metabolism.Keywords
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