Efficacy of a home-based exercise program for recently hospitalized chronic heart failure patients
2015; Elsevier BV; Volume: 101; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/j.physio.2015.03.1448
ISSN1873-1465
AutoresKoji TAKASE, Yoshimi Matsuo, Yukio Yanagisawa, Koji HIGASHINE, M. Oda, M. Manabe, Yuji Shimada, Riyo Ogura, Takehumi Takahashi, Yoshikazu Hiasa,
Tópico(s)Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
ResumoBackground: Comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation (CCR) has demonstrated favorable effects for recently hospitalized chronic heart failure (CHF) patients. However, currently proposed CCR models are not acceptable for many CHF patients, because they live in remote geographic location, have difficulty in transportation, or do not have the sufficient financial resources to pay for an outpatient program. Whereas, home-based programs have been reported to be equally effective as center-based programs. Moreover, its adherence is higher than that of center-based programs. However, there are no trials evaluating home-based programs in the early post-hospital period. This is an important clinical question, because recently hospitalized CHF patients were experienced the high rate of rehospitalization compared with stable outpatients.
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