Effects of Early and Vigorous Exercise on Recovery from Infectious Hepatitis

Abstract
To compare the effect of strenuous exercise on recovery time in 199 American servicemen in Vietnam with infectious hepatitis to that in 199 patients with infectious hepatitis treated in the customary fashion, the exercise group was started on the program of strenuous exercise for approximately three hours daily at the time their symptoms were considered to be slight, irrespective of the degree of liver-function abnormality.