Key result
Long-term cardiac rehabilitation in coronary heart disease patients older than 80 years improved functional capacity by 5.4% after 1 year (P<.05).
Why the study?
Does very long-term cardiac rehabilitation improve exercise tolerance and risk factors in patients older than 80 years with coronary heart disease?
Cohort (n=58)
Does very long-term cardiac rehabilitation improve exercise tolerance and risk factors in patients older than 80 years with coronary heart disease?
Very long-term cardiac rehabilitation is feasible and effective at improving functional capacity and slowing age-related decline in exercise tolerance in patients over 80 years old with coronary heart disease.
Supports feasibility of long-term cardiac rehabilitation in octogenarians; hypothesis-generating pending randomized confirmation.
The authors assessed the effect of very long-term cardiac rehabilitation (over 1 year) on exercise tolerance and coronary heart disease risk factors in patients older than 80 years with coronary heart disease relative to an elderly cohort without coronary heart disease. Included in this retrospective analysis were patients older than 80 at the time of their last evaluation who had completed at least 1 year of a cardiac prevention and exercise training program. A total of 43 coronary heart disease patients and 15 age-matched healthy subjects were included in this study. Long-term cardiac rehabilitation in very elderly coronary heart disease patients was shown to be feasible and effective in improving functional capacity (+5.4% after 1 year; P< .05) and risk factor control, and slowing the decline in exercise tolerance that occurs with normal aging.
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Gayda et al. (2006) conducted a cohort in Coronary heart disease (n=58). Long-term cardiac rehabilitation vs. Age-matched healthy subjects without coronary heart disease was evaluated on Functional capacity (p=<.05). Long-term cardiac rehabilitation in coronary heart disease patients older than 80 years improved functional capacity by 5.4% after 1 year (P<.05).
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