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Background: Over 1.3 million patients worldwide have permanent cardiac pacemakers (PPM). Patients with PPM, in the first to third months after implantation, still report problems with physical activity (PA), such as limitations in their lives, jobs, and exercise, inability to perform activities as before, and decreased PA.
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