National Exercise and Heart Disease Project: Psychosocial Changes Observed During a Low-Level Exercise Program

Publication Description
Seven hundred eighty-four men, 30 to 64 years of age, with documented myocardial infarctions less than three years prior to study admission, were admitted to a six-week low-level exercise program. Six hundred fifty-one subjects completed the program, in which exercise intensity was limited to a maximum of 72% of age-predicted heart rate. This report characterizes study dropouts. In addition, the results suggest that low-level exercise is sufficient to stimulate positive psychosocial, sexual, and vocational changes in an upper middle class volunteer population. Recency of infarct is significantly correlated with degree of change in work capacity but does not appear to influence significantly the outcome variables, with the possible exception of return to sexual functioning.(Arch Intern Med 1981;141:1463-1467)

Primary Author
Stern,Melvin J.
Cleary,Patricia

Volume
141

Issue
11

Start Page
1463

Other Pages
1467

Publisher
American Medical Association

URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1981.00340120071015

PMID
7283557



Reference Type
Journal Article

Periodical Full
Archives of Internal Medicine

Publication Year
1981

Publication Date
Oct 1,

Place of Publication
United States

ISSN/ISBN
0003-9926

Document Object Index
10.1001/archinte.1981.00340120071015