Why the study?
Does exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation reduce mortality or hospital admissions in patients with coronary artery disease?
Population
22 RCTs pooling 4,834 participants with coronary artery disease recruited after the year 2000, mean age 59.5…
Comparison
Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) vs No-exercise control
Design
Meta-analysis
Follow-up
longest follow-up period
Key result
Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation had no effect on all-cause mortality compared with a no-exercise control (risk difference 0.00; 95% CI -0.02 to 0.01; P=0.38).
Authors
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No mortality benefit from exercise-based CR in CAD; challenges survival assumptions and extends focus to admissions and quality-of-life endpoints.
Meta-Analysis (n=4,834)
Does exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation reduce mortality or hospital admissions in patients with coronary artery disease?
Effect estimate: risk difference 0.00 (95% CI -0.02 to 0.01)
p-value: p=0.38
Contemporary exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation does not reduce all-cause or cardiovascular mortality compared to no-exercise control in patients with coronary artery disease.
Powell et al. (2018) conducted a meta-analysis in coronary artery disease (n=4,834). exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation vs. no-exercise control was evaluated on all-cause mortality (risk difference 0.00, 95% CI -0.02 to 0.01, p=0.38). Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation had no effect on all-cause mortality compared with a no-exercise control (risk difference 0.00; 95% CI -0.02 to 0.01; P=0.38).