A home-based exercise program improves heart rate variability and functional capacity among postmenopausal women with coronary artery disease.

Aims: To determine whether a home-based exercise program is able to increase functional capacity (FC) and reduce heart rate variability (HRV) in postmenopausal women with coronary heart disease.

Background: Regular exercise training has been shown to improve both FC and HRV. However, those studies were conducted within institutional training programs, and few have included women.