High quadriceps isometric strength level significantly linked to lower risk for developing heart failure among heart attack patients<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n
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FRIDAY, May 26, 2023 (HealthDay News) — A higher level of quadriceps isometric strength (QIS) is associated with a lower risk for developing heart failure after acute myocardial infarction (AMI), according to a study presented at the European Society of Cardiology Heart Failure 2023, held from May 20 to 23 in Prague.<\/p>\n
Kensuke Ueno, P.T., from the Kitasato University Graduate School of Medical Sciences in Sagamihara, Japan, and colleagues examined the association between QIS, as a measure of skeletal muscle strength, and the risk for developing heart failure among 932 AMI patients without a history of heart failure or complications of heart failure during hospitalization.<\/p>\n
The researchers found that 67 patients (7.2 percent) developed heart failure during an average follow-up of 4.5 years. The incidence of heart failure was 10.2 and 22.9 per 1,000 person-years in patients with high and low quadriceps strength, respectively. In adjusted analyses, a high QIS level was associated with a significantly lower risk for developing heart failure compared with low QIS (hazard ratio, 0.59). Each 5 percent body weight increment in QIS was associated with a lower likelihood of heart failure (hazard ratio, 0.89).<\/p>\n
“Quadriceps strength is easy and simple to measure accurately in clinical practice. Our study indicates that quadriceps strength could help to identify patients at a higher risk of developing heart failure after myocardial infarction who could then receive more intense surveillance,” Ueno said in a statement. “The findings need to be replicated in other studies, but they do suggest that strength training involving the quadriceps muscles should be recommended for patients who have experienced a heart attack to prevent heart failure.”<\/p>\n
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