Maintenance of Physical Condition and Physical Activity at One Year After Cardiac Rehabilitation Program

Maintenance of Physical Condition and Physical Activity at One Year After Cardiac Rehabilitation Program

Maintaining physical activity post-cardiac rehabilitation (CR) has a major role in disease progression and patient prognosis, especially given its potential impact on physical condition. Unfortunately, during a nursing interview carried out 6 months after the CR at the Center Hospitalier de Cholet, we find that 40% do not maintain regular physical activity. This observation is in line with the literature since it emerges respectively at 2 months and 1 year post-CR that between 47% and 59% of patients do not comply with the recommendations in terms of physical activity (Guiraud et al, 2012).

However, data suggest that during the post-CR follow-up phase at 6 months, there could be a maintenance of the physical condition assessed via the distance at the 6-minutes walk test (Pavy et al, 2012; Racodon et al, 2019). There is a lack of data on the maintenance of physical condition beyond 6 months since no study has evaluated the maintenance of physical condition at 1 year post-CR by 6-minutes walk test.

The objective of this study is to examine the maintenance of physical condition at one year after cardiac rehabilitation program by the 6-minutes walk test.

Inclusion Criteria :

• Patient participating in cardiac rehabilitation
• Patient who presented an acute coronary syndrome
• Patient having signed the written consent to participate
• Patient able to comply with the constraints of the protocol

Exclusion Criteria :

• Patient with heart failure
• Patient reluctant or unable to comply with the protocol
• Pregnant, parturient and nursing mothers
• Persons deprived of their liberty or under guardianship