Abstract
The approach to cardiovascular disease must currently be focused on the prevention of acute illness and the control of disease progression, because an increasing incidence of this disease is observed, especially in its chronic form. Each year, an estimated 785,000 Americans will suffer from a new acute coronary syndrome, and 470,000 will have a recurrent attack, with an increase in health expenditure (23.5% of pharmaceutical expenditure for cardiovascular disease). In 1993 the World Health Organization defined cardiac rehabilitation as “the sum of activities required to favourably influence the underlying cause of the disease, as well as to ensure patients the best possible physical, mental and social conditions so that they may, by their own efforts, preserve or resume, when lost, as normal a place as possible in the life of the community”.
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Piccoli, M., Giubilato, G. (2012). Cardiac Rehabilitation. In: Fioranelli, M., Frajese, G. (eds) Sports Cardiology. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2775-6_29
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