Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Home-based Training With Telemonitoring Guidance Versus Center-based Cardiac Rehabilitation in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease: the TRiCH-study
Brief Summary: Cardiovascular diseases are the main cause of death worldwide. Aerobic fitness is related to long-term survival and a reduction in mortality and recurrent nonfatal myocardial infarction in subjects with cardiovascular disease. However, the majority of cardiac patients do not engage in enough physical activity to obtain benefits or in the long-term struggle to maintain a physically active lifestyle. There is a need for innovative rehabilitation methods aiming at increasing longer-term adherence and hence more sustained effects on health related physical fitness. One strategy might be the use of home-based training in combination of telemonitoring guidance. Therefore, the main objective of this randomized controlled clinical trial is to compare the longer-term (=1 year) effects of a 3-month supervised center-based rehabilitation program with a patient-tailored home-based cardiac rehabilitation program with telemonitoring guidance in CAD patients (phase III). The primary outcome measure is physical fitness. It is hypothesized that patients randomized to a home-based training program with telemonitoring guidance will demonstrate higher levels of physical activity at one year of follow-up, resulting in higher levels of physical fitness, compared to patients who have been enrolled to the supervised center-based cardiac rehabilitation program or control group. Ninety patients will be randomized to Home-based training, a center-based cardiac rehabilitation program or an advice only group (= control group). Assessment will be performed at baseline, immediately at completion of the intervention and at one-year of follow-up and will include measurements of exercise tolerance, cardiovascular risk factors, physical activity, muscle strength, endothelial function, health-related quality.


Options:
A: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients with CAD (post-PCI, post-MI, post-CABG)
* Patients on optimal medical treatment and stable with regard to symptoms and pharmacotherapy for at least 6 weeks
* Patients have successfully completed the 3 month ambulatory cardiac rehabilitation in hospital program
* 39 yrs \< age \< 76 years
* access to internet facilities or PC at home

Exclusion Criteria:

* Significant undercurrent illness last 6 weeks
* Known severe ventricular arrhythmia with functional or prognostic significance; significant myocardial ischemia, hemodynamic deterioration or exercise-induced arrhythmia at screening or heart disease that limits exercise
* Co-morbidity that may significantly influence one-year prognosis
* Functional of mental disability that may limit exercise
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* Recent myocardial infarction (within 3 months after the index event)
* Standard rehabilitation program of 3-6 weeks performed
* Informed consent (obtained before any study specific procedure)

Exclusion Criteria:

* Age \> 75 years
* Any condition that in the opinion of the investigator would jeopardize the evaluation of efficacy or be associated with poor adherence to the protocol;
* Presence of any non-cardiac disease (e.g. cancer) that is likely to significantly shorten life expectancy
C: Inclusion Criteria:

* coronary artery disease
* type 2 diabetes

Exclusion Criteria:

* serious diabetic retinopathy, nephropathy and/ or neuropathy
* other serious diseases like cancer, stroke or MI last three months, unstable angina, decompensated heart failure, serious ventricular arrhythmia, aortic aneurism, serious valvular heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease GOLD classification IV, deep venous/ pulmonary embolism, ongoing infections, serious musculoskeletal disorders.
* other serious limitations to physical exercise
* pathological exercise stress test warranting further cardiovascular examination
D: Inclusion Criteria:

* Coronary artery bypass

Exclusion Criteria:

* Significant lung disease
* Drug abuse
* Pregnancy
* Major physical impairment

Answer: A