Journal
PHYSIOLOGICAL REPORTS
Volume 10, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.14814/phy2.15308
Keywords
cardiac function; cardiac rehabilitation; flow-mediated dilation; HIIT; stair climbing
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- McMaster University
- Canadian Institute for Health Research Institute of Gender and Health grant
- Canada Research Chairs program
- McMaster Research in Aging and Labarge Scholarship
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Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation can improve cardiovascular function in individuals with coronary artery disease. Clinical and additional measures of cardiovascular function can be used to assess changes after rehabilitation, but only a small increase in cardiac apical rotation was observed after 4 weeks of training in this study, suggesting a need for a larger training stimulus to elicit other cardiovascular function changes.
Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation leads to improvements in cardiovascular function in individuals with coronary artery disease. The cardiac effects of coronary artery disease (CAD) can be quantified using clinical echocardiographic measures, such as ejection fraction (EF). Measures of cardiovascular function typically only used in research settings can provide additional information and maybe more sensitive indices to assess changes after exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation. These additional measures include endothelial function (measured by flow-mediated dilation), left ventricular twist. myocardial performance index, and global longitudinal strain. To investigate the cardiovascular response to 12 week of either traditional moderate-intensity (TRAD) or stair climbing-based high-intensity interval (STAIR) exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation using both clinical and additional measures of cardiovascular function in individuals with CAD. Measurements were made at baseline (BL) and after supervised (4wk) and unsupervised (12 week) of training. This study was registered as a clinical trial at clinicaltrials.gov(NCT03235674). Participants were randomized into either TRAD (n = 9, 8M/1F) and STAIR (n = 9, 8M/1F). There was a training-associated increase in one component of left ventricular twist: Cardiac apical rotation (TRAD: BL: 5.6 +/- 3.30, 4 week: 8.0 +/- 3.90,12 week: 6.2 +/- 5.10 and STAIR: BL: 5.1 +/- 3.6 degrees, 4 week: 7.4 +/- 3.90,12 week: 7.8 +/- 2.80, p (time) = 0.03, eta(2) = 0.20; main effect) and post-hoc analysis revealed a difference between BL and 4 week (p = 0.02). There were no changes in any other clinical or additional measures of cardiovascular function. The small increase in cardiac apical rotation observed after 4 weeks of training may indicate an early change in cardiac function. A larger overall training stimulus may be needed to elicit other cardiovascular function changes.
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