Long-term changes in exercise capacity, quality of life, body anthropometry, and lipid profiles after a cardiac rehabilitation program in obese patients with coronary heart disease

Effectiveness of nonpharmacological secondary prevention of coronary heart disease

“…Only two methodologically rigorous studies investigated Qol, the meta-analyses by Taylor et al [42] and the RCT by Briffa et al [15]. Both reported only some improvements in Qol associated with the intervention, and two of three methodologically less rigorous studies found an improvement in at least one Qol subscale [18,23]. Observed reductions in mortality and cardiac events were more conclusive in meta-analysis as is illustrated in Figs 2 and 3, and Table 3.…”

“…In contrast, 12 primary studies included patients with any diagnosis of CHD [16,18,[22][23][24]26,28,33,[37][38][39]48], 12 studies compared effectiveness with usual care. Studies that included more acute patients as identified by acute coronary syndrome, PCI or coronary artery bypass graft more frequently reported favourable intervention effects as presented in Table 1 and partly confirmed by meta-analysis (Table 3).…”

Health Related Quality of Life in Coronary Patients

“…At the present time, the Medical Outcomes Study 36-item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) used in this project is the most valid instrument for measuring the quality of life of patients with coronary disease and its use has been proven in the clinical forms of both angina and myocardial infarction (Failde & Ramos, 2000). Likewise, it is an appropriate tool for use in patients who undergo heart surgery and as an evaluative measure in intervention programmes (Brown et al, 1999;Dougherty et al, 1998;Hawkes & Mortensen, 2006;Yu et al, 2003).…”

Multifactorial Lifestyle Interventions in the Primary and Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus—A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials

“…Patients with manifest coronary artery disease were recruited after having experienced a recent acute myocardial infarction [16,32,37], after percutaneous coronary intervention [21], after coronary artery surgery [28], after any of these events [33,38,44,49], or more generally if their diagnosis was proven diagnostically [10,23,25,30,40,46]. Nine studies were done in Europe [11,15,19,24,32,33,38,44,47], seven in the USA [10,13,14,17,31,39,41], two in Canada [46], one in India [23], Hong Kong [48], South Korea [20], Australia [28], Thailand [45], and Japan [35], respectively (Table 1). Sixteen studies were published between 2003 and 2008, and eight were published from 1982 to 2001.…”