Effects of home-based exercise training for patients with chronic heart failure and sleep apnoea: a randomized comparison of two different programmes.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of home-based exercise for patients with chronic heart failure and sleep apnoea and to compare two different training programmes.

Design: A randomized, prospective controlled trial.

Setting: Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, Brazil.

Correlation between quality of life and functional capacity in cardiac failure.

Background: Patients with cardiac failure (CF) present progressive incapacity and decreased quality of life, both related to dyspnea and fatigue. Thus, there is the increasing interest in measuring the quality of life (QL), by generic instrument, such as the 36-item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36), by specific instrument, such as Minnesota Living with Heart Failure (MLHFQ).

Objective: This study has the objective to correlate the QL surveys, SF-36 and MLHFQ, with the functional capacity of patients with CF, expressed by the cardiopulmonary test and the TC6M.