Background— A well-developed coronary collateral circulation provides a potential source of blood supply in coronary artery disease. However, the prognostic importance and functional relevance of coronary collaterals is controversial with the association between exercise training and collateral growth still unclear. Methods and Results— This prospective, open-label study randomly assigned 60 patients with significant coronary artery disease (fractional flow reserve ≤0.75) to high-intensity exercise (group A, 20 patients) or moderate-intensity exercise (group B, 20 patients) for 4 weeks or to a control group (group C, 20 patients). The primary end point was the change of the coronary collateral flow index (CFI) after 4 weeks. Analysis was based on the intention to treat. After 4 weeks, baseline CFI increased significantly by 39.4% in group A (from 0.142±0.07 at beginning to 0.198±0.09 at 4 weeks) in comparison with 41.3% in group B (from 0.143±0.06 to 0.202±0.09), whereas CFI in the control group remained unchanged (0.7%, from 0.149±0.09 to 0.150±0.08). High-intensity exercise did not lead to a greater CFI than moderate-intensity training. After 4 weeks, exercise capacity, V o 2 peak and ischemic threshold increased significantly in group A and group B in comparison with group C with no difference between group A and group B. Conclusions— A significant improvement in CFI was demonstrated in response to moderate- and high-intensity exercise performed for 10 hours per week. Clinical Trial Registration— URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov . Unique identifier: NCT01209637.
emic index (RHI)) of endothelial function in a 15-min test. 9 In adults, an RHI <1.35 indicates impaired endothelial function. 7 Data providing normal values for RHI in children and adolescents are limited. However, the method is used frequently for study purposes, usually to compare endothelial function in children with cardiovascular risk factors against healthy subjects. 2,3 Additionally, interventional studies investigating the effect of physical exercise (PE) on RHI in adolescents are lacking.Thus, using RH-PAT in a large cohort of healthy school children, we aimed to explore the factors influencing the RHI under particular consideration of PE at school. A
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