Effects of cardiac rehabilitation on elderly patients with Chronic heart failure: A meta-analysis and systematic review.

Aims: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) on elderly patients with Chronic heart failure (CHF) by literature search and meta-analysis.

Methods: We conducted an electronic search on PubMed, Cochrane Library, Embase, CNKI, Wanfang, and VIP database platforms. The search period was from the establishment of the database to November 2021 for randomized controlled studies (RCTs) related to the effects of CR on elderly patients with CHF.

Safflower extract inhibiting apoptosis by inducing autophagy in myocardium derived H9C2 cell.

The Heart failure (HF) is considered as the end-stage of various heart disease and associated with high mortality globally. Progressive loss of cardiac myocytes via apoptosis is considered as the most important factor for HF pathology. In this study, we demonstrated that Safflower extract was able to inhibitthe apoptosis inducted by Angiotensin II (AngII) in a ratmyocardium derived cell line H9C2.