Exercise for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Treatment

Part I. Exercise Benefits the Heart: Clinical Evidence

1. Exercise Benefits Coronary Heart Disease
Lei Wang, Dongmei Ai, Ning Zhang

2. Exercise Exerts Its Beneficial Effects on Acute Coronary Syndrome: Clinical Evidence
Zhuyuan Liu, Huanyu Gu, Qiying Dai, Hongbao Wang, Jianhua Yao, Lei Zhou

3. Exercise-Based Rehabilitation for Heart Failure: Clinical Evidence
Rongjing Ding

4. The Benefits of Exercise Training on Aerobic Capacity in Patients with Heart Failure and Preserved Ejection Fraction
Danilo Marcelo Leite Prado, Enéas Antônio Rocco

5. Hypertension and Exercise Training: Evidence from Clinical Studies
Ivana C. Moraes-Silva, Cristiano Teixeira Mostarda, Antonio Carlos Silva-Filho, Maria Claudia Irigoyen

6. Effects of Exercise on Arrhythmia (and Viceversa): Lesson from the Greek Mythology
Caterina Lambiase, Silvia Macerola, Giovanna Bosco, Elisa Messina, Pasquale Franciosa

7. Exercise and Congenital Heart Disease
Junnan Wang, Bin Liu

8. The Positive Effects of Exercise in Chemotherapy-Related Cardiomyopathy
Cavarretta Elena, Mastroiacovo Giorgio, Lupieri Annik, Frati Giacomo, Peruzzi Mariangela

9. Clinical Evidence of Exercise Benefits for Stroke
Peipei Han, Wen Zhang, Li Kang, Yixuan Ma, Liyuan Fu, Liye Jia, Hairui Yu, Xiaoyu Chen, Lin Hou, Lu Wang, Xing Yu, Masahiro Kohzuki, Qi Guo

10. Evidence on Exercise Training in Pulmonary Hypertension
Abraham Samuel Babu, Ross Arena, Norman R. Morris

11. Peripheral Vascular Disease: The Beneficial Effect of Exercise in Peripheral Vascular Diseases Based on Clinical Trials
Basant M. Elnady, Ayman Saeed

Part II. Molecular Mechanisms

12. The IGF1-PI3K-Akt Signaling Pathway in Mediating Exercise-Induced Cardiac Hypertrophy and Protection
Kate L. Weeks, Bianca C. Bernardo, Jenny Y. Y. Ooi, Natalie L. Patterson, Julie R. McMullen

13. NO Signaling in the Cardiovascular System and Exercise
Tiago Fernandes, Camila V. Gomes-Gatto, Noemy P. Pereira, Yahya R. Alayafi, Vander J. Neves, Edilamar M. Oliveira

14. C/EBPB-CITED4 in Exercised Heart
Shengguang Ding, Tianyi Gan, Meiyi Song, Qiying Dai, Haitao Huang, Yiming Xu, Chongjun Zhong

15. MicroRNAs Mediate Beneficial Effects of Exercise in Heart
Yihua Bei, Lichan Tao, Dragos Cretoiu, Sanda Maria Cretoiu, Junjie Xiao

16. Exercise Training and Epigenetic Regulation: Multilevel Modification and Regulation of Gene Expression
Ursula Paula Renó Soci, Stephano Freitas Soares Melo, João Lucas Penteado Gomes, André Casanova Silveira, Clara Nóbrega, Edilamar Menezes Oliveira

17. Exercise-Induced Mitochondrial Adaptations in Addressing Heart Failure
Jubert Marquez, Jin Han

18. Exosomes Mediate the Beneficial Effects of Exercise
Yangxin Li, Chaoshan Han, Juanjuan Wang, Jin Zhou, Chun Liang, Kasturi Ranganna, Yao-hua Song

Part III. Exercise Dosing and Prescription

19. Exercise Dosing and Prescription-Playing It Safe: Dangers and Prescription
Lei Wang, Dongmei Ai, Ning Zhang

Avainsanat: Biomedicine, Human Physiology, Molecular Medicine, Cardiology