Lifestyle following heart disease is considered important to prevent and reduce cardiovascular risk factors. Thus, cardiac rehabilitation is focused on potential lifestyle changes. Further insight into patients’ perspective on lifestyle after cardiac rehabilitation is needed as changing habits following heart disease is a complex matter. The objective of this study was to explore the characteri...

OBJECTIVE Cardiac rehabilitation remains grossly under-utilized despite its proven benefits. This study prospectively compared verified cardiac rehabilitation enrollment following automatic vs usual referral, postulating that automatic referral would result in significantly greater enrollment for cardiac rehabilitation. DESIGN Prospective controlled multi-center study. PATIENTS AND METHODS ...

background: heart failure is a severe chronic disease and has a negative impact on the health-related quality of life (hrql). in addition to preventing disease progress, one of the important goals in heart failure treatment is to improve the patient’s quality of life. this study is aimed to compare three generic to specific quality of life instruments that are used in cardiac rehabilitation set...

The definition of cardiac rehabilitation whether it be by the WHO or the European Society of Cardiology is very complex and includes not only the field of cardiology but also psychological and social interventions (Fig. 1). However, the practice of cardiac rehabilitation in Europe differs greatly from country to country. Cardiac rehabilitation in phase II varies from residential rehabilitation ...

BACKGROUND Presently, complementary and alternative medicine, including both therapies and herbal/oral supplements, is used globally. Few studies have examined the use of specific therapies, separate from herbal/oral supplements, in cardiac rehabilitation. This paper presents a systematic evaluation of current research evidence related to use of specific complementary and alternative medicine t...