Exercise as medicine for heart failure: A novel intervention to improve outcomes

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1143660

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Heart failure (HF) is a common, debilitating and expensive disease; prognosis remains poorer than for the most cancers. 30,000 Australians are diagnosed every year and 300,000 live with the HF, at an annual cost of ~$1Billion. Exercise training is effective therapy in HF, because it reverses many of the problems that contribute to the reduced lifespan and impaired quality of life of patients with HF. We will test an exciting new type of exercise that promising greater benefit, at lower risk.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2019

End Date: 01-01-2021

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $665,585.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Exercise Physiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

exercise physiology | heart failure | heart transplantation | skeletal muscle | vascular function

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