Current Role and Future Perspectives of Cardiac Rehabilitation in Heart Disease

² Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Diseases of Women and Children (Sichuan University), Ministry of Education, 610041 Chengdu, Sichuan, China

³ Health Management Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, 400016 Chongqing, China

⁴ Department of Geriatric Cardiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, 400010 Chongqing, China

^*Correspondence: yuli-1977@163.com (Li Yu); lsl@cqmu.edu.cn (Shilan Luo)
^†These authors contributed equally.

Rev. Cardiovasc. Med. 2024, 25(3), 76; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.rcm2503076

Submitted: 26 September 2023 | Revised: 15 October 2023 | Accepted: 26 October 2023 | Published: 27 February 2024

(This article belongs to the Section Heart Diseases)

This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.

Abstract

As a comprehensive secondary prevention program, cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is a beneficial and cost-effective intervention for patients with heart disease, but the participation rate of patients in CR is low globally. In recent years, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and scientific and technological advances, an increasing number of alternative CR modes have been developed, such as remote CR, home-based CR, hybrid CR and virtual CR. These alternative CR modes represent changes and new opportunities for patients with heart disease. In this review, we will discuss in detail the impact of CR on patients with different types of heart disease, review the various alternative CR models, and explore some prospects for the future of CR in the field of heart disease.

Keywords

cardiac rehabilitation

heart disease

secondary prevention

model of delivery

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