This comprehensive volume examines the current issues involved in prescribing exercise for assorted age groups as well as recent recommendations of exercise for patients with various cardiac problems. Written by international experts in this field, "Exercise and the Heart in Health and Disease": reviews the physiological, biochemical, and psychological responses to exercise and the principles underlying exercise evaluations and prescriptions in healthy individuals; considers how assessment and prescriptions are modified in childhood, youth, middle age, old age, high-risk patients, and those with cardiovascular disease; discusses exercise in relation to such conditions as silent ischemia, angina, myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, coronary bypass, angioplasty, cardiac transplantation, and hypertension; covers areas of growing interest, including cardioactive drugs, the wheelchair disabled, and the costs and benefits of exercise in cardiac disease; and offers new insights into the regulation of cardiac output during exercise. Generously referenced with over 1300 literature citations, "Exercise and the Heart in Health and Disease" is for cardiologists, physiologists, cardiac rehabilitation and sports medicine specialists, internists, and medical and graduate school students in these disciplines.
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