Key result
Extended cardiac rehabilitation needs urgent expansion to curb frailty in Japan's aging heart failure population.
Why the study?
The Basic Act on Cerebrovascular and Cardiovascular Disease Measures aims to extend healthy life expectancy and reduce medical and nursing burdens, identifying continuous cardiac rehabilitation as a key challenge.
Highlights the urgent need to improve recovery and maintenance phase cardiac rehabilitation for the growing population of elderly heart failure patients in Japan to prevent frailty and functional decline.
Supports expanded maintenance cardiac rehab for elderly Japanese HF patients; leaves open efficacy of frailty prevention pending prospective trials.
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Shigeru Makita (2025) studied this question. Cardiac rehabilitation in Japan requires urgent enhancement during convalescent and maintenance phases to prevent frailty and dysfunction in the growing elderly heart failure population.
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