Pulmonary rehabilitation improves heart rate variability at peak exercise, exercise capacity and health-related quality of life in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Shih Tsung Cheng; Yao Kuang Wu; Mei Chen Yang; Chun Yao Huang; Hui-Chuan Huang; Wen Hua Chu; Chou Chin Lan

doi:10.1016/j.hrtlng.2014.03.002

Pulmonary rehabilitation improves heart rate variability at peak exercise, exercise capacity and health-related quality of life in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Shih Tsung Cheng, Yao Kuang Wu, Mei Chen Yang, Chun Yao Huang, Hui-Chuan Huang, Wen Hua Chu, Chou Chin Lan

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Objective: Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) appear to have impaired cardiac autonomic modulation with depressed heart rate variability (HRV). Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is recommended as an integral part of the management. However, the effect of PR on HRV at peak exercise remains unclear. Methods: Sixty-four patients with COPD participated in a 12-week, 2 sessions-per-week, hospital-based PR program. Baseline and post-PR status were evaluated by spirometry, HRV, health-related quality of life (HRQL, St. George's Respiratory Questionnaire, SGRQ), cardiopulmonary exercise test, respiratory muscle strength, and dyspnea Borg's scale. Results: After PR, there were significant improvements in the time and frequency domains of HRV with increased standard deviation of the normal R-R intervals, difference between adjacent normal R-R intervals within a given time minus one, high-frequency and decreased low-frequency, as well as concurrent improvements in HRQL, exercise capacity, dyspnea score, and respiratory muscle strength (all p

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	249-255
Number of pages	7
Journal	Heart and Lung: Journal of Acute and Critical Care
Volume	43
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrtlng.2014.03.002
Publication status	Published - 2014
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Exercise capacity
Health-related quality of life
Heart rate variability
Pulmonary rehabilitation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

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Cheng, S. T., Wu, Y. K., Yang, M. C., Huang, C. Y., Huang, H-C., Chu, W. H., & Lan, C. C. (2014). Pulmonary rehabilitation improves heart rate variability at peak exercise, exercise capacity and health-related quality of life in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Heart and Lung: Journal of Acute and Critical Care, 43(3), 249-255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrtlng.2014.03.002

Pulmonary rehabilitation improves heart rate variability at peak exercise, exercise capacity and health-related quality of life in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. / Cheng, Shih Tsung; Wu, Yao Kuang; Yang, Mei Chen et al.
In: Heart and Lung: Journal of Acute and Critical Care, Vol. 43, No. 3, 2014, p. 249-255.

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Cheng, ST, Wu, YK, Yang, MC, Huang, CY, Huang, H-C, Chu, WH & Lan, CC 2014, 'Pulmonary rehabilitation improves heart rate variability at peak exercise, exercise capacity and health-related quality of life in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease', Heart and Lung: Journal of Acute and Critical Care, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 249-255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrtlng.2014.03.002

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