Optimizing Cardiac Rehabilitation

Abstract

It is known that cardiac rehabilitation (CR) successfully improves health (e.g. blood pressure and lipid profile), quality of life, and risk of mortality. In part 1 of this thesis we focused on changes in objectively measured moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity (MVPA), sedentary behaviour, fatigue and participation in society during cardiac rehabilitation (CR) in patients with coronary heart disease. Our results showed small improvements in MVPA and time spent in sedentary behaviour. However, by the end of CR, patients still spent relatively little time in physical activity and a long time sedentary. More substantial improvements were found for fatigue and participation in society. However, the prevalence of severely fatigued patients and t