More Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs in Less Time (másPORmenos)

Almudena Castro Conde

Status: Completed

Conditions: Acute Coronary Syndrome

Treatments: Other: Intensive cardiac rehabilitation program in less time

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02619422

másPORmenos

Details and patient eligibility

About

To determine if an intensive cardiac rehabilitation program with periodic reinforcements improve the compliance/adherence to secondary preventive measures (physical exercise, mediterranean diet, tobacco abstinence, pharmacological treatment) after an acute coronary syndrome with or without ST segment elevation versus an standard cardiac rehabilitation program

Enrollment: 509 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Signed informed consent
• Equal or older 18 years old
• Acute coronary syndrome with or without ST elevation within last two months
• Being able to do physical exercise
• Being able to understand the educative sessions
• Being able to understand patient information in the consent form

Exclusion criteria

• Hemodynamic instability
• Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) < or = 35%
• Heart failure class III -IV (New York Heart Association (NYHA) Functional Classification)
• Refractory angina
• Any pathology for which physical exercise is not indicated

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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509 participants in 2 patient groups

Intensivo

Other group

Description:

intensive cardiac rehabilitation program in less time

Treatment:

Other: Intensive cardiac rehabilitation program in less time

Convencional

No Intervention group

Description:

standard cardiac rehabilitation program