Conclusions Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation is effective at reducing important clinical outcomes in patients with coronary heart disease .
While our analysis was constrained by the quality of included trials and missing information about intervention components , there appears to be little differential effect of variations in exercise intervention , particularly on mortality outcomes .
Background While the clinical benefits of exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation are well established , there is extensive variation in the interventions used within these trials .
It is unknown whether variations in individual components of these exercise interventions provide different relative contributions to overall clinical outcomes .
This study aims to systematic ally examine the relationship between individual components of the exercise intervention in cardiac rehabilitation ( such as intensity and frequency ) and clinical outcomes for people with coronary heart disease .
Randomized controlled evaluation shows the effectiveness of a home-based cardiac rehabilitation program.
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of a home-based cardiac rehabilitation ( CR ) program on post-coronary arteries bypass graft patients . METHODS This is a r and omized study conducted in King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital , Jeddah , Kingdom of Saudi Arabia between June 2008 and January 2010 . Forty-nine participants were r and omized to either a control group ( st and ard hospital treatment , n=21 ) or an intervention group ( home-based CR , n=28 ) . Data were collected before hospital discharge ( baseline test ) and repeated 6 months after hospital discharge ( follow-up test ) . RESULTS There were no significant differences between the groups in the body mass index , hemodynamics , serum fasting lipid profile , and Quality of Life question naire ( QoL ) ( p>0.05 ) , with differences in physical function and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scales ( HADS ) ( p<0.05 ) at the baseline test . At the follow-up test , the intervention group showed greater improvement in health-related QoL and risk factors compared to the control group , with significant differences in fasting blood glucose , triglycerides , high density lipoprotein cholesterol , physical function , and both QoL and HADS question naires ( p<0.05 ) . The intervention group also demonstrated significant improvements in QoL , HADS , body mass index , heart rate , high density lipoprotein cholesterol and physical function ( p<0.05 ) , while significant differences were observed in the control group in heart rate , QoL and physical function ( p<0.05 ) . CONCLUSION The home-based CR program improves health-related QoL and risk factor profiles for patients following coronary arteries bypass graft to greater extent than the st and ard hospital care
Conclusions Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation is effective at reducing important clinical outcomes in patients with coronary heart disease .
While our analysis was constrained by the quality of included trials and missing information about intervention components , there appears to be little differential effect of variations in exercise intervention , particularly on mortality outcomes .
Background While the clinical benefits of exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation are well established , there is extensive variation in the interventions used within these trials .
It is unknown whether variations in individual components of these exercise interventions provide different relative contributions to overall clinical outcomes .
This study aims to systematic ally examine the relationship between individual components of the exercise intervention in cardiac rehabilitation ( such as intensity and frequency ) and clinical outcomes for people with coronary heart disease .