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January 1, 2015ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam)Open Access

Exercise-based rehabilitation for heart failure: systematic review and meta-analysis

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Why the study?

Does exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation reduce mortality and hospitalisation or improve quality of life in patients with heart failure?

Population

4,740 participants from 33 randomized controlled trials, predominantly with heart failure with reduced…

Comparison

Exercise interventions alone or as a component… vs No exercise control.

Design

Meta-analysis

Follow-up

6 or more months

Authors

VSViral A SagarEDEdward J. DaviesSBSimon Briscoe

Discussion

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Overview

Supports exercise cardiac rehabilitation to reduce HF hospitalizations; confirms morbidity benefits without short-term mortality reduction.

Structured PICO

Does exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation reduce mortality and hospitalisation or improve quality of life in patients with heart failure?

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Population
4,740 participants from 33 randomized controlled trials, predominantly with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (<40%) and NYHA class II and III.
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Intervention
Exercise interventions alone or as a component of a comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation programme.
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Comparator
No exercise control.
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Outcome
All-cause mortality (assessed up to 1 year and beyond 1 year).hard clinical

Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation significantly reduces overall and heart failure-specific hospitalizations and improves quality of life in patients with heart failure, though it does not significantly reduce short-term mortality.

Limitations

  • An individual participant data meta-analysis is needed to provide confirmatory evidence of the importance of patient subgroup and programme level characteristics on outcome.

Cite This Study

Sagar et al. (2015) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a82aa4e516b1a94b7d4ab8ehttps://doi.org/10.1136/openhrt-2014-000163
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