Jornal de Patologia Clínica e Experimental

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Scientific Interest on Cardiovascular Health and Cardio Rehabilitation.

Sebastião David Santos-Filho

Introduction: The prescription of physical exercises must be adjusted in the proportion in that the cardiovascular capacitating and the physical capacitating for the diary activities were going better according to rehabilitation program proposed by physiotherapy. It verified the number of publications in indexed journals cited on PubMed related with the cardiac rehabilitation and the main exercises utilized in the treatment.
Method: It evaluated in the PubMed (November 02, 2018) the number of publications in cardiac rehabilitation and some signals and symptoms of cardiovascular diseases and, cardiac rehabilitation and rehabilitation exercises. The number of publications of each signal/exercise was divided by total obtained for cardiac rehabilitation, calculated a percentile of publications for each signal/exercise.
Results: In 13480 citations verified high scientific interest in publications about myocardial infarction, angina and hypertension, the more researched. It also verified biggest interest in publications about aerobic exercises.
Conclusion: The analysis of the results shows the interest of the scientific community about signals and symptoms of the cardiac diseases. It verified the importance of the aerobic exercises for the cardiac rehabilitation, suggesting a discussion by professionals of physiotherapy of the procedures of cardiac rehabilitation.