Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention

Cardiopulmonary rehabilitation: Cardiac rehabilitation defined as exercise training, education and emotional support about lifestyle changes to decrease heart disease risk, like healthy eating and healthy dieting, maintaining a healthy weight and quitting smoking.

The Four Phases of Cardiac Rehabilitation;

The Acute Phase of Cardiac Rehabilitation.
Outpatient Rehabilitation Program.
Independent Ongoing Maintenance.

Cardiopulmonary Disease prevention: Cardiopulmonary Disease prevention defines as the prevention of lungs and heart diseases. Some of the following controllable risk factors for heart disease:

High cholesterol (low HDL)
Hypertension
Obesity
Smoking (with a current plan to quit)
Diabetes

Committee Members

Yochai Birnbaum

Baylor College of Medicine, United States

Uwe Peter Tigor

Auxilius Pharma, United States, United States

Federico Benetti

Benetti Foundation, Argentina

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Cardio 2026 Speakers

Sergey Suchkov

Professor in Medicine & Immunology, Director for Center for Biodesign of N.D. Zelinskii Institute for Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation