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Cardiac rehabilitation programs should develop behavioral weight loss programs to assist cardiac patients in losing weight and improving risk factors.
Practitioners should consider integrating behavioral weight loss strategies into cardiac rehabilitation programs.
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Cardiac rehabilitation programs need to take on an important challenge of secondary prevention, which is to develop behavioral weight loss programs to assist cardiac patients to lose weight and, thereby, improve multiple risk factors and long-term prognosis.
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The conclusion is based on a review of the current state of cardiac rehabilitation.
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The Treatment of Obesity in Cardiac Rehabilitation
Philip A. Ades et al. · Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention · 2021
DOI 10.1097/hcr.0000000000000637
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