Key result
Cardiac rehabilitation confers meaningful clinical benefits in elderly patients with age-related heart disease.
Why the study?
The utility of cardiac rehabilitation for elderly cardiac patients is controversial due to cost, logistic barriers, and comorbidities, with uncertainty about the relevance of behavior modification and risk-factor reduction in very old adults.
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Supports cardiac rehabilitation referral in elderly patients; leaves open optimal implementation pending higher-level evidence.
The utility of cardiac rehabilitation for elderly cardiac patients is controversial, and cost, logistic barriers, and encumbering comorbidities often seem disproportionate. Many clinicians view the emphasis of cardiac rehabilitation on behavior modification and risk-factor reduction as irrelevant for very old adults and consider pure exercise programs as appropriate alternatives. The strong rationale for cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention is elucidated, and available corroborating data are presented. The benefits of exercise prescription in cardiac rehabilitation and synchronized risk-factor reduction are pertinent to aging and age-related heart disease, including coronary heart disease and heart failure.
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Forman et al. (2000) conducted a review in Elderly cardiac patients (coronary heart disease and heart failure). Cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention programs was evaluated. Cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention programs, including exercise prescription and risk-factor reduction, provide pertinent benefits for elderly patients with age-related heart disease.
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