Heart failure patients may experience improvements in their quality of life and mood by participating in a tai chi exercise program, a randomized study suggested.
The small study of patients with chronic systolic heart failure found that disease-specific quality of life -- measured on the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire -- showed benefits among those who took tai chi, with scores falling from a median of 28 at baseline to 9 at 12 weeks, according to Gloria Y. Yeh, MD, of Harvard in Boston, and colleagues.
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