Why the study?
Cardiac rehabilitation is highly recommended for heart failure patients, but Arab countries and the Middle East lack specific cardiac rehabilitation programs and guidelines.
Does short term regular exercise improve quality of life and functional capacity in patients with chronic heart failure?
Does short term regular exercise improve quality of life and functional capacity in patients with chronic heart failure?
A short-term exercise program for chronic heart failure patients in Saudi Arabia demonstrated improvements in quality of life, functional capacity, and reduced emergency room visits.
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Short-term CR may aid chronic HF in the Middle East; hypothesis-generating and needs prospective trials before any practice change.
Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is a comprehensive disease management program for heart failure patients. Most of the heart failure (HF) guidelines are classifying the cardiac rehabilitation for heart failure patients as class 1A which mean highly recommended. However, Arab countries and Middle East are lacking specific CR programs and guidelines. In this study, five cases of chronic heart failure patients were exposed to short term regular exercise for maximum 8 weeks. With a mean of 5.6 exercise visits there are 19. 2% improvement in functional capacity, 35% improvement of exercise distance, 32.5% improvement in quality of life, 25% improvement in quality of sleep and decrease the emergency room visits by 37.5%.The significant improvement was in quality of life, exercise capacity and a decrease in ER visit for all patients.
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