February 7, 2017European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
Blood pressure dynamics during exercise rehabilitation in heart failure patients
Why the study?
Does cardiac rehabilitation improve abnormal blood pressure response to exercise in patients with heart failure?
Population
651 patients with heart failure (HF) who underwent cardiac rehabilitation (CR)
Design
Cohort
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Discussion
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Implication
ABPRE normalization after cardiac rehab linked to greater functional gains in HF; hypothesis-generating for targeted strategies in observational data.
Structured PICO
Does cardiac rehabilitation improve abnormal blood pressure response to exercise in patients with heart failure?
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Population
651 patients with heart failure (HF) who underwent cardiac rehabilitation (CR)
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Intervention
Cardiac rehabilitation (CR)
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Outcome
Normalization of abnormal blood pressure response to exercise (ABPRE) following cardiac rehabilitationsurrogate
Cardiac rehabilitation normalizes abnormal blood pressure response to exercise in two-thirds of heart failure patients, which correlates with improved functional outcomes.
Cite This Study
Hecht et al. (2017) studied this question.