Exercise Recommendations For Heart Disease

Getting regular exercise is strongly recommended for your health, whether you are currently healthy or already have heart disease.

• Read about the benefits of exercise.

If you do already have a cardiac condition, before you begin exercising there may be specific exercise recommendations you need to take into account.

Here is specific exercise guidance for patients with:

• Heart attack or coronary artery disease
• Congenital heart disease
• Congenital coronary artery abnormality
• Mitral valve prolapse
• Myocarditis
• Marfan syndrome
• Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
• Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC)
• Catecholamine polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT)
• Brugada syndrome
• Long QT syndrome (LQTS)

_Sources:

_{Maron, BJ, Ackerman, MJ, Nishimura, RA, et al. Task Force 4: HCM and other cardiomyopathies, mitral valve prolapse, myocarditis, and Marfan syndrome. J Am Coll Cardiol 2005; 45:1340}

_{Zipes, DP, Ackerman, MJ, Estes NA, 3rd, et al. Task Force 7: arrhythmias. J Am Coll Cardiol 2005; 45:1354.}