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Participants‘Heart Failure’ OR ‘Heart Decompensation’ OR ‘Congestive Heart Failure’ OR ‘Congestive Heart Failure’ OR ‘Chronic heart failure’ ‘Cardiac Failure’ OR ‘diastolic heart failure’ OR ‘heart failure with normal ejection fraction’ OR ‘heart failure with preserved ejection fraction’ OR ‘heart failure with reduced ejection fraction’ OR ‘Ventricular dysfunction’ OR ‘LV dysfunction’ ‘LV dysfunction’ OR ‘Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction’
OR HFNEF OR HFNEF OR HFNEFOR ‘HF NEF’ OR ‘HF NEF’ OR ‘HF REF’
InterventionExercise OR Exercise Therapy OR Exercis* OR ‘Physical Activit*’ OR ‘Physical Exercis*’ OR ‘Aerobic Exercis*’ OR Train* OR ‘Exercise Train*’ OR ‘High-Intensity Interval Training*’ OR ‘High-Intensity Interval Exercis*’ OR ‘Resistance Training*’ OR ‘Cardiac Rehabilitation’ OR ‘inspiratory muscle training’ OR ‘respiratory muscle training’ OR ‘inspiratory training’ OR ‘neuromuscular electrical stimulation’ OR ‘NMES’
Study design‘Randomised Controlled Trials’ OR ‘Random allocation’ OR ‘Controlled Clinical Trials’ OR ‘Control groups’ OR ‘Clinical trials’ OR ‘clinical trials, phase i’ OR ‘clinical trials, phase ii’ OR ‘clinical trials, phase iii’ OR ‘clinical trials, phase iv’ OR ‘Clinical Trials Data Monitoring Committees’ OR ‘Double-blind method’ OR ‘Single-blind method’ OR Placebos OR ‘Placebo effect’ OR ‘Cross-over studies’ OR ‘Multicenter Studies’