Journal of Cardiac Failure
Volume 16, Issue 9 , Pages 742-749 , September 2010

Yoga in Heart Failure Patients: A Pilot Study

  • Jill Howie-Esquivel, PhD, RN, NP

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiological Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, CA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Jill Howie-Esquivel, PhD, RN, NP, #2 Koret Way, Box 0610, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143. Tel: 415-502-1551; 415-476-8899 (fax).
    • ,
  • Jiyeon Lee, RN, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiological Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, CA
    • ,
  • Gina Collier, RN, MS, ACNP

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiological Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, CA
    • ,
  • Wolf Mehling, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family and Community Medicine, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA
    • ,
  • Kirsten Fleischmann, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA

Received 25 November 2009 ,Revised 20 April 2010 ,Accepted 29 April 2010.

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 Funded by the University of California, San Francisco Academic Senate Individual Investigator Award.See page 748 for disclosure information.

PII: S1071-9164(10)00203-4

doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2010.04.011

Journal of Cardiac Failure
Volume 16, Issue 9 , Pages 742-749 , September 2010

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