Beneficial Effects of Physical Exercise on Functional Capacity and Skeletal Muscle Oxidative Stress in Rats with Aortic Stenosis-Induced Heart Failure

Table 3

Maximal exercise test before and after physical training.

	C-Sed ()	C-Ex ()	AS-Sed ()	AS-Ex ()
Distance
Before	257 ± 86.5	247 ± 55.8	171 ± 59.7	163 ± 35.5^†
After	225 ± 64.8	304 ± 47.5	154 ± 48.9	254 ± 47.2^†‡
Time
Before	22.8 ± 4.10	22.7 ± 2.53	18.5 ± 3.16	18.1 ± 2.16^†
After	21.7 ± 3.51	25.1 ± 1.94	18.0 ± 3.05	22.7 ± 2.61^†‡

C-Sed: sedentary control group; C-Ex: exercised control group; AS-Sed: sedentary aortic stenosis group; AS-Ex: exercised aortic stenosis group. Data are mean ± SD; ANOVA and Tukey; versus C-Sed; ^† versus C-Ex; ^‡ versus AS-Sed.