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Cardiac rehabilitation should evolve beyond exercise-based programs to include comprehensive risk factor identification and lifestyle changes.
Cardiac rehabilitation was initially designed to reduce symptoms after a cardiac event, to increase physical tolerance of activities at home and work, and to improve quality of life. Therefore, cardiac rehabilitation programs have been mainly exercise-based [1]. However, in order to prevent another debilitating – or fatal – cardiac event in the future, we need to help our patients identify all risk factors and to make a life style change.
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