Atsuko Nakayama, Noriko Ishii, Mami Mantani, Kazumi Samukawa, Rieko Tsuneta, Megumi Marukawa, Kayoko Ohno, Azusa Yoshida, Emiko Hasegawa, Junko Sakamoto, Kentaro Hori, Shinya Takahashi, Kaoruko Komuro, Takashi Hiruma, Ryo Abe, Togo Norimatsu, Mai Shimbo, Miyu Tajima, Mika Nagasaki, Takuya Kawahara, Mamoru Nanasato, Toshimi Ikemage, Mitsuaki Isobe
Although cardiac rehabilitation (CR) has been shown to improve exercise tolerance and prognosis in patients with cardiovascular diseases, there remains low participation in outpatient CR. This may be attributed to the patients' busy schedules and difficulty in visiting the hospital due to distance, cost, avoidance of exercise, and severity of coronary disease. To overcome these challenges, many countries are exploring the possibility of remote CR. Specifically, there is increasing attention on the development of remote CR devices, which allow transmission of vital information to the hospital via a remote CR application linked to a wearable device for telemonitoring by dedicated hospital staff...
November 2023: Korean Circulation Journal