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Strengthening Your Heart With Cardiac Rehabilitation

AMS Cardiology

It typically includes supervised exercise training, heart-healthy living education, stress reduction counseling and nutrition guidance. Regular exercise helps strengthen the heart muscle, improve circulation and increase cardiovascular endurance. Enhanced Emotional Well-Being Cardiac events can take a toll on mental health.

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14 Ways To Prevent Dementia

Dr. Paddy Barrett

The 14 Factors Include: Hearing Loss High LDL cholesterol Less Education Traumatic Brain Injury Depression Social Isolation Hypertension Obesity Smoking Excess Alcohol Diabetes Physical Inactivity Air Pollution Visual Loss Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2024 report of the Lancet standing Commission When You Intervene Matters.

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New Guidelines on Peripheral Artery Disease Issued by American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology and Leading Medical Societies

DAIC

Risk factors for PAD include smoking; having Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, chronic kidney disease, atherosclerosis in other parts of the body (such as coronary artery disease); and being age 75 years or older. Rates of referral for supervised exercise therapy among PAD patients are incredibly low.

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Harnessing digital health to optimise the delivery of guideline-based cardiac rehabilitation during COVID-19: an observational study

Open Heart

Patients received access to a bespoke web-based platform and were invited to attend weekly, online group-based supervised exercise sessions and educational workshops. To support self-management, patients were provided with a Fitbit, a home blood pressure (BP) monitor and an interactive workbook. kg, p<0.001). p<0.001).

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Rationale and Design of the mTECH?Rehab Randomized Controlled Trial: Impact of a Mobile Technology Enabled Corrie Cardiac Rehabilitation Program on Functional Status and Cardiovascular Health

Journal of the American Heart Association

Key secondary and exploratory outcomes include improvement in a composite cardiovascular health metric, CR engagement, quality of life, health factors (including low‐density lipoprotein‐cholesterol, hemoglobin A1c, weight, diet, smoking cessation, blood pressure), and psychosocial factors.

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What is corruption – and why does it matter so much?

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

Where hosting the football World Cup became an exercise in bribery from which no-one, and nothing, was immune. A key opinion leader can be critically important in helping to educate physicians about a new drug. Any man, or woman, who refused to take a bribe from FIFA was the exception, not the rule. So, good luck with that.