Why the study?
Does cardiac rehabilitation followed by a maintenance program improve patterns of fatigue in elderly heart failure patients over 5 years?
Population
Elderly heart failure patients (n=200 at baseline, n=112 surviving at 5 years, mean age 75 years)
Comparison
6 month trial of cardiac rehabilitation followed… vs Standard care
Design
Cohort, Baseline randomization to CR versus standard care
Follow-up
5 years
Authors
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Fatigue patterns in elderly HF vary widely with mostly unsustained or adverse trajectories; hypothesis-generating for sustained cardiac rehabilitation effects.
Does cardiac rehabilitation followed by a maintenance program improve patterns of fatigue in elderly heart failure patients over 5 years?
Severe fatigue in elderly heart failure patients progresses variably over 5 years and is a modifiable symptom in the early phases of cardiac rehabilitation.
Austin et al. (2011) studied this question.
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