Impact of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Training Programs in Coronary Heart Disease

Cardiovascular rehabilitation (CR) is the process of developing and maintaining an optimal level of physical, social, and psychological well-being in order to promote recovery from cardiovascular (CV) illness. It is a multi-disciplinary approach encompassing supervised exercise training, patient counseling, education and nutritional guidance that may also enhance quality of life. Beneficial CV effects may include improving coronary heart disease risk factors; particularly exercise capacity, reversing cardiac remodeling, and favorably modifying metabolism and systemic oxygen transport.

Source: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases - July 6, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Sergey Kachur, Vasutakarn Chongthammakun, Carl J. Lavie, Alban De Schutter, Ross Arena, Richard V. Milani, Barry A. Franklin Source Type: research