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Cardiac rehabilitation lowers mortality and hospitalization and improves quality of life, but remains substantially underutilized in secondary prevention, especially by women.
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Highlights the underutilization of cardiac rehabilitation by women despite its proven benefits in secondary prevention.
Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is a corner stone intervention in secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease where a multidisciplinary team provides tailored management of lifestyle interventions, exercise and behavioural counselling. Participating in CR resulted in better rates of tobacco cessation, blood pressure and cholesterol lowering and better glycaemic control [1]. CR participation results in significant lower mortality and hospitalizationand improved quality of life. Despite the body of evidence and the robust recommendation by international guidelines it remains underutilized especially by women.
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Juwairia Alali (2026) studied this question. Cardiac rehabilitation lowers mortality and hospitalization and improves quality of life, but remains substantially underutilized in secondary prevention, especially by women.
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