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Record W4407560557 · doi:10.1093/eurjcn/zvaf021

The right treatment for the right patient: utility of exergaming and medical yoga for heart failure patients

2025· article· en· W4407560557 on OpenAlexaff
Renaud Tremblay, Madeline E. Shivgulam, Carson Halliwell, Myles W. O’Brien

Bibliographic record

VenueEuropean Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicHeart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
Canadian institutionsDalhousie UniversityNova Scotia Health AuthorityCentre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux du Saguenay–Lac-Saint-JeanCentre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-MontréalUniversité de Sherbrooke
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineRight heartHeart failureRight heart failurePhysical therapyCardiology

Abstract

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This invited commentary refers to ‘Effects of exergaming and yoga on exercise capacity, physical and mental health in heart failure patients: a randomized sub-study’ by L. Klompstra et al., https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjcn/zvae155. Regular physical activity and exercise are well-established management and treatment strategies for adults with heart failure,1 but there are several barriers to being active experienced by these patients.2 Identifying engaging and motivating strategies to promote these vulnerable populations to become active is necessary. To address this problem, Klompstra et al. 3 conducted a 3 month randomized controlled trial comparing the effects of exergaming (Nintendo Wii-Sport 5 days/week for 30 min), yoga (2 days/week for 1 h at a yoga centre), and an active control (received physical activity advice and support from a nurse or physiotherapist) among people with heart failure.3 Follow-ups were conducted 3, 6, and 12 month time points. While there were no between-group effects in any of their outcome measures, within-group effects demonstrated that exergaming and yoga improved exercise capacity (6 min walk test), fatigue, and shortness of breath. Exergaming also improved physical health-related quality of life, whereas yoga improved emotional health-related quality of life. The active control group improved their overall well-being at 3 months. This study demonstrates the potential for using exergaming and yoga as alternatives to conventional exercise prescriptions to improve symptoms of patients with heart failure.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.991
Threshold uncertainty score0.289

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.247
Teacher spread0.238 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designOther design
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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