Introduction
overweight, weight loss
CARDIAC DISEASE
Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is a valuable treatment for patients with a broad spectrum of cardiac disease. Currently, CR has a class 1 recommendation (evidence and/or general agreement that a given treatment or procedure is beneficial, useful, effective) in several European society of cardiology (ESC) and American college of cardiology (ACC) guidelines [Currently, at entry into CR over 80% of the patients are overweight (body mass index (BMI) ≥ 25 kg/mRecently, we have shown that weight loss achieved by bariatric surgery improves many echocardiographic parameters of cardiac function and dimension at one-year follow-up [