Home-based and worksite-based exercise training for patients with coronary artery disease.
In the era of thrombolysis, exercise training for patients with ischemic heart disease should be reserved for enhancement of functional capacity and psychological well-being rather than improvement of prognosis. Low to moderate intensity exercise training enhances functional capacity to the same extent that group-based exercise training does and can be performed safely at home. The physical demands of occupational work have decreased to the point where patients with ischemic heart disease who manifest neither treadmill-induced myocardial ischemia nor left ventricular dysfunction can perform virtually any occupational task.
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Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, California.
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