Key result
Cardiac rehabilitation improves exercise capacity and quality of life despite low global participation.
Why the study?
Cardiac rehabilitation is beneficial and cost-effective for heart disease patients, but global participation rates remain low, and alternative CR modes are emerging.
This review highlights the evolving landscape of cardiac rehabilitation, emphasizing the shift towards alternative delivery modes such as remote and home-based programs to improve global participation rates.
As a comprehensive secondary prevention program, cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is a beneficial and cost-effective intervention for patients with heart disease, but the participation rate of patients in CR is low globally. In recent years, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and scientific and technological advances, an increasing number of alternative CR modes have been developed, such as remote CR, home-based CR, hybrid CR and virtual CR. These alternative CR modes represent changes and new opportunities for patients with heart disease. In this review, we will discuss in detail the impact of CR on patients with different types of heart disease, review the various alternative CR models, and explore some prospects for the future of CR in the field of heart disease.
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Yang et al. (2024) conducted a review in Heart Disease. Cardiac Rehabilitation vs. Usual care / No cardiac rehabilitation was evaluated. Cardiac rehabilitation is a beneficial secondary prevention program that improves exercise capacity and quality of life across various heart diseases, though global participation remains low.
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