Setting the exercise intensity in cardiovascular rehabilitation for patients with cardiometabolic disease: is it different between males and females?

Juliana Goulart Prata Oliveira Milani^{1

2}, Mauricio Milani^{1

2

3}, Felipe Vilaça Cavallari Machado^{1

3

4}, Matthias Wilhelm⁵, Thimo Marcin⁵, Flavio D'Ascenzi⁶, Luna Cavigli⁶, Charly Keytsman³, Maarten Falter^{3

7

8}, Fabrício Braga^{9

10}, Anderson Donelli da Silveira^{11

12}, Graziella França Bernardelli Cipriano^{2

13}, Veronique Cornelissen¹⁴, Kenneth Verboven^{1

4}, Gerson Cipriano Junior^{2

15}, Dominique Hansen^{1

3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Rehabilitation Research Center (REVAL), Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, Hasselt University, Wetenschapspark 7, Diepenbeek 3590, Belgium.
² Graduate Programme in Health Sciences and Technologies, University of Brasilia (UnB), Brasilia, DF, Brazil.
³ Heart Centre Hasselt, Jessa Hospital, Stadsomvaart 11, Hasselt 3500, Belgium.
⁴ Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Biomedical Research Institute (BIOMED), Hasselt University, Gebouw C, Diepenbeek 3590, Belgium.
⁵ Centre for Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
⁶ Department of Medical Biotechnologies, Sports Cardiology and Rehab Unit, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.
⁷ Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium.
⁸ Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁹ Laboratório de Performance Humana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
¹⁰ Department of Cardiology, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
¹¹ Division of Cardiology, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
¹² Postgraduate Program in Cardiology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
¹³ Rehabilitation Sciences Programme, University of Brasilia (UnB), Brasilia, DF, Brazil.
¹⁴ Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
¹⁵ Graduate Program in Human Movement and Rehabilitation of Evangelical (PPGMHR), UniEVANGÉLICA, Anápolis, Brazil.

Juliana Goulart Prata Oliveira Milani et al. Eur J Prev Cardiol. 2025.

. 2025 Aug 5;32(10):905-907.

doi: 10.1093/eurjpc/zwae367.

¹ Rehabilitation Research Center (REVAL), Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, Hasselt University, Wetenschapspark 7, Diepenbeek 3590, Belgium.
² Graduate Programme in Health Sciences and Technologies, University of Brasilia (UnB), Brasilia, DF, Brazil.
³ Heart Centre Hasselt, Jessa Hospital, Stadsomvaart 11, Hasselt 3500, Belgium.
⁴ Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Biomedical Research Institute (BIOMED), Hasselt University, Gebouw C, Diepenbeek 3590, Belgium.
⁵ Centre for Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
⁶ Department of Medical Biotechnologies, Sports Cardiology and Rehab Unit, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.
⁷ Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium.
⁸ Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁹ Laboratório de Performance Humana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
¹⁰ Department of Cardiology, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
¹¹ Division of Cardiology, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
¹² Postgraduate Program in Cardiology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
¹³ Rehabilitation Sciences Programme, University of Brasilia (UnB), Brasilia, DF, Brazil.
¹⁴ Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
¹⁵ Graduate Program in Human Movement and Rehabilitation of Evangelical (PPGMHR), UniEVANGÉLICA, Anápolis, Brazil.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: none declared.