There are minimal data on long-term exercise capacity and quality of life (QOL) in
obese patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) who underwent a cardiac rehabilitation
and prevention program (CRPP). Previous studies are limited by the lack of control
groups.
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Furthermore, whether the benefit of CRPP is related to the decrease in the severity
of obesity is uncertain. Although acute improvement of body mass index or body fat
content was observed in some studies,
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,
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it was not consistently reported by other investigators,
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and the long-term changes in these indexes are also unknown. Therefore, a prospective,
randomized, controlled study was conducted to examine the effect of a short-course
CRPP on short- and long-term exercise capacity, QOL, and body anthropometry in obese
patients with CHD who had either recent acute myocardial infarction (AMI) or had undergone
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Article info
Publication history
Accepted:
September 18,
2002
Received in revised form:
September 18,
2002
Received:
July 10,
2002
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