Weight management telehealth intervention for overweight and obese rural cardiac rehabilitation participants: A randomised trial.

ABSTRACT:

Aims and objectives

To determine whether a weight management intervention (WMI) plus cardiac rehabilitation (CR) compared to CR alone improves outcomes for overweight and obese cardiac revascularisation patients.

Background

Despite participating in cardiac rehabilitation (CR), few cardiac patients lose enough weight to achieve clinically significant cardiovascular disease risk reduction.

Design

A randomised controlled design was used with measurements at baseline, 4 and 6 months, guided by the CONSORT checklist, see Supporting Information File S1. Adults who had undergone either coronary artery bypass surgery (CABS) or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and participated in a rural CR programmes were recruited. Subjects were randomised to a 12-week telehealth WMI

SUBMITTER: Barnason S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6453725 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature