Cardiac rehabilitation improves quality of life, reduces risk factors, and decreases morbidity and mortality in cardiovascular patients, making it a class 1 recommendation in modern guidelines.
Do cardiac rehabilitation programs improve outcomes in cardiovascular patients?
Cardiac rehabilitation is an integral, highly recommended component of cardiovascular care that provides broad clinical benefits.
Previous research experience on cardiac rehabilitation programs as a part of general health care system has shown that they are an important part of the management of cardiovascular patients. Improving quality of life, reducing the severity of risk factors, increasing physical performance, slowing disease progression, decrease in morbidity and mortality indicate the clinical efficacy of cardiac rehabilitation and make it an integral part of therapeutic interventions. Heart rehabilitation is a 1st class recommendation in the majority of modern cardiovascular guidelines around the world.
Vladimirsky et al. (2023) conducted a review in Cardiovascular disease. Cardiac rehabilitation was evaluated. Cardiac rehabilitation improves quality of life, reduces risk factors, and decreases morbidity and mortality in cardiovascular patients, making it a class 1 recommendation in modern guidelines.