The third issue of 2025 (Volume 45, No. 3) is now available for AACVPR members and JCRP subscribers.
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Editor-in-Chief Todd Brown, MD, MSPH, FACC, FAHA, MAACVPR, provides an overview below of the content included in the May issue:
This month, in addition to highlighting the new AACVPR Statement on the Volume of Aerobic Exercise to Optimize Outcomes in Cardiac Rehabilitation, we’re also highlighting selected visual abstracts from articles published in this issue of JCRP. More visual abstracts can be viewed on JCRP’s social media accounts (linked above). We encourage you to follow JCRP on our social media platforms, and check out the full articles in JCRP!
AACVPR Statement:
- Volume of Aerobic Exercise to Optimize Outcomes in Cardiac Rehabilitation: An Official Statement From the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation – Check out the article summary and visual abstract below!
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JCRP ARTICLE SUMMARY
We know that increasing physical activity is critical to improving patient outcomes and reducing cardiovascular disease risk, and that higher exercise volumes are associated with better outcomes, but how can this knowledge be incorporated into the way exercise prescriptions are developed for patients? This must-read new Official Statement from AACVPR, “Volume of Aerobic Exercise to Optimize Outcomes in Cardiac Rehabilitation: An Official Statement From the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation,” gives programs the practical tools to do just that.
The article includes a wealth of knowledge to help programs increase their patients’ exercise volumes. Table 1 provides guidelines for practitioners to follow to help take exercise volume into consideration when creating a comprehensive exercise prescription for patients. Table 2 includes both patient level factors and programmatic factors that should be considered by clinicians when developing an exercise prescription. Table 3 provides summary recommendations for exercise volume in cardiac rehabilitation, and outcomes that patients can expect when meeting specific exercise volume targets. Figure 1 also includes an easily digestible visual aid that describes how various volumes of physical activity can impact patient outcomes.
The article also includes more guidance on how increased volumes of physical activity impact specific conditions like metabolic disease, low cardiorespiratory fitness, heart failure, and heart valve disease, and how you can adapt your guidance for these special populations.
Check out the visual abstract and key perspectives from the article below and read the full article as part of the May JCRP Issue today!
Key Perspectives: Key Perspectives are available for all JCRP articles and help to quickly summarize the article and the study findings in relation to clinical care. Make sure to read through the Key Perspectives section for this article below.
What is novel?
- Evidence suggests that the exercise volume per session typically achieved in cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is quite modest.
- There is clear evidence that, in general, a greater exercise volume is associated with more favorable cardiovascular outcomes.
- This Position Statement provides an overview of the specific goals for the volume of aerobic exercise to optimize long-term outcomes for participants in CR.
- We describe how to integrate the various components of the exercise prescription (i.e., frequency, intensity, duration, and type) to achieve the optimal volume of aerobic exercise.
What are the clinical implications?
- To achieve the higher volumes of aerobic exercise that have been described in this Position Statement will require alterations to the traditional exercise prescription and, in some cases, programmatic changes in the way CR services are delivered.
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Invited Scientific Review
- Digital Technologies and Artificial Intelligence in Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Narrative Review
Original Investigations
- Attitudes to and Attendance at Cardiac Rehabilitation after Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection
- The Unique Needs and Challenges of Young Females after Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection
- Impact of Home-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation on Physical Function, Mortality and Costs.
Interested in this topic? Learn more by reviewing the visual abstract below, and reading the article in JCRP!
- A Confirmatory Factory Analysis of the Exercise Sensitivity Questionnaire (ESQ)
- Selected for the JCRP Featured Science Opportunity for the 39th AACVPR Annual Meeting in 2024, we’re excited to release this article as part of the May issue!
- Combined Physical Exercise in Pulmonary Rehabilitation Does Not Alter Endothelial Function and Vascular Structure in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Randomized Clinical Trial
Research Letters
- Cardiac Rehabilitation in a Patient with Takotsubo Syndrome and Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome
- Depression Increases the Risk of Dropout From Home-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Congenital Heart Disease Physical Activity Lifestyle Intervention (CHD-PAL): A Randomized Clinical Trial among Young Adults with Congenital Heart Disease
Upcoming Content
For upcoming content in the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention:
Check out the Published Ahead of Print section for articles published ahead of the print version of JCRP.