{"id":2876,"date":"2018-03-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/28\/mhealth-program-increases-peak-vo2-after-cardiac-rehab\/"},"modified":"2018-03-29T16:07:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T16:07:53","slug":"mhealth-program-increases-peak-vo2-after-cardiac-rehab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/28\/mhealth-program-increases-peak-vo2-after-cardiac-rehab\/","title":{"rendered":"mHealth Program Increases Peak VO<sub>2<\/sub> After Cardiac Rehab"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Increase in absolute peak VO<sub>2<\/sub> and in minutes of moderate-high physical activity\/week<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, March 28, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; After cardiac rehabilitation (CR), a 12-week mHealth program involving physical activity trackers and health coaching can increase absolute peak VO<sub>2<\/sub> and moderate-high physical activity, according to a study published in the May issue of the <i>American Heart Journal<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Brian D. Duscha, from the Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, N.C., and colleagues examined whether an mHealth program could sustain the fitness and physical activity levels gained during CR. After completing CR, 25 patients were randomized to mHealth or usual care; physical activity trackers and health coaching were used to implement a 12-week mHealth program.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that for absolute peak VO<sub>2<\/sub>, there was a 4.7 \u00b1 13.8 percent increase in the mHealth group and an 8.5 \u00b1 11.5 percent decrease in the usual care group, resulting in a significant difference between the groups. Decreases in the amount of moderate-low and moderate-high physical activity minutes per week were seen with usual care (117 \u00b1 78 versus 50 \u00b1 53 and 111 \u00b1 76 versus 65 \u00b1 64, respectively). Moderate-high physical activity was increased with mHealth (138 \u00b1 113 versus 159 \u00b1 156). The divergent changes in moderate-high physical activity minutes\/week in the mHealth and usual care groups resulted in a significant difference between the groups.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A 12-week mHealth program of physical activity trackers and health coaching following CR graduation can sustain the gains in peak VO<sub>2<\/sub> and physical activity achieved by site-based CR,&#8221; the authors write.<\/p>\n<p>Two authors are employees of Vida Health Inc., which partially funded the study. The rest of the study was funded by Glaxo Research Fund.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahjonline.com\/article\/S0002-8703(18)30039-5\/fulltext\" target=\"_new\">Abstract\/Full Text (subscription or payment may be required)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increase in absolute peak VO<sub>2<\/sub> and in minutes of moderate-high physical activity\/week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-2876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2896,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions\/2896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}