Does virtual cardiac rehabilitation improve quality-of-life and functional outcomes compared to traditional cardiac rehabilitation?
Virtual cardiac rehabilitation provides comparable quality-of-life improvements to traditional cardiac rehabilitation, though traditional rehab may offer greater functional capacity gains.
< 0.05), while TCR participants had greater MET improvement among those with ≥5 mmHg diastolic blood pressure reduction. VCR was associated with quality-of-life improvements comparable to TCR and may offer potential benefits for women, while TCR produced larger functional capacity gains in subgroup analyses. These findings are hypothesis-generating, reflect a single-center predominantly homogenous population, and require confirmation in prospective, randomized studies.
Nuvvula et al. (Mon,) studied this question.