{"id":2387,"date":"2014-07-16T12:40:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T17:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2387"},"modified":"2014-07-16T16:14:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T21:14:26","slug":"cardiac-rehabilitation-is-underused-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/cardiac-rehabilitation-is-underused-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiac rehabilitation is underused worldwide<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"color: #222222;\">Helping patients manage heart disease through diet and exercise is a proven and cost-effective strategy, yet its use worldwide is limited, a new review shows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Cardiac rehabilitation programs provide education, exercise and risk reduction and have been shown to reduce mortality by up to 25 per cent. Yet worldwide, only 39 per cent of countries have cardiac rehabilitation programs. The gap is especially noticeable in low- and middle-income countries.\u00a0For example Paraguay has one rehab program for every 6.4 million inhabitants, compared to one for every 102,000 in the UK. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">The authors recommend supportive health policies and alternative delivery modes, including partnerships between rich and poor countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nrcardio\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/abs\/nrcardio.2014.98.html\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the journal\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Nature Reviews Cardiology<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em>on\u00a0<strong>July 15, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Sherry Grace, York University, Ontario<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helping patients manage heart disease through diet and exercise is a proven and cost-effective strategy, yet its use worldwide is limited, a new review shows. Cardiac rehabilitation programs provide education, exercise and risk reduction and have been shown to reduce mortality by up to 25 per cent. Yet worldwide, only 39 per cent of countries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[51,1943,53,50,476],"class_list":["post-2387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-health","tag-heart-disease","tag-medicine","tag-ontario","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Cv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2393,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions\/2393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}