Comparative effects of a cardiovascular rehabilitation program on functional capacity in patients with chronic chagasic cardiomyopathy with or without heart failure

Exercise-based training programs for patients with chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy: A systematic review and meta-analysis

“…After screening by title and abstract, 21 records remained eligible for full-text assessment, and 12 records were excluded. Finally, 9 records for 8 studies were included for qualitative analyses according to our criteria eligibility [12] , [13] , [14] , [15] , [16] , [17] , [18] , [19] , [20] . This implies that there were two published articles for one study [15] , [16] .…”

“…The eight studies included were published between 2008 and 2023 and consisted of three RCTs [13] , [14] , [19] and five NRIS (one with a control group and four single-arm studies) [12] , [20] , [16] , [17] , [18] . Seven studies were conducted in Brazil [12] , [13] , [14] , [16] , [17] , [18] , [19] and one in Argentina [20] . A total of 222 patients participated in the studies, of which 169 subjects were assigned to different EBTP and the rest to control groups, when appropriate.…”

“…The intervention involved physical exercise training alone (without any cointervention) or exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (plus nutritional and pharmaceutical counseling), comprising different types of physical activities (strength, aerobic, stretching, etc.). Additionally, three studies explicitly mentioned the incorporation of nutritional and pharmacological counseling as part of the intervention [12] , [14] , [16] ( Table 1 , and Supplementary Table S3 ) .…”

“…2 A) . Regarding NRIS, two studies [17] , [18] were rated as having a moderate risk of bias due to issues with bias related to missing data, and the other three [12] , [16] , [20] were considered to have a serious risk due to considerable problems with confounding, missing data, and selection in the reported results ( Fig. 2 B) .…”

The effect of cardiac rehabilitation on left and right ventricular function in post primary PCI patients

“…Cardiac rehabilitation programs are needed to limit the physical and psychological effects of cardiovascular disease, reduce the risk of sudden death or recurrence, control the symptoms of atherosclerosis, and stabilize and reverse the process of atherosclerosis and improve psychosocial status [ 15 , 16 ]. According to clinical studies, cardiac rehabilitation is a useful method for correcting cardiac risk factors such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, obesity, smoking and reducing anxiety and depression after heart surgery [ 17 , 18 ].…”