Conclusions Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation is effective at reducing important clinical outcomes in patients with coronary heart disease .
While our analysis was constrained by the quality of included trials and missing information about intervention components , there appears to be little differential effect of variations in exercise intervention , particularly on mortality outcomes .
Background While the clinical benefits of exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation are well established , there is extensive variation in the interventions used within these trials .
It is unknown whether variations in individual components of these exercise interventions provide different relative contributions to overall clinical outcomes .
This study aims to systematic ally examine the relationship between individual components of the exercise intervention in cardiac rehabilitation ( such as intensity and frequency ) and clinical outcomes for people with coronary heart disease .
Improved physical fitness and quality of life following training of elderly patients after acute coronary events. A 1 year follow-up randomized controlled study.
AIMS Cardiac rehabilitation including exercise training is of proven value in ischaemic heart disease . However , elderly patients frequently are not encouraged to participate in such programmes . This study evaluates the physiological effects and self-reported quality of life after an aerobic outpatient group-training programme in subjects above the age of 65 years . METHODS AND RESULTS A consecutive series of 101 patients ( males 80 % ) aged 65 - 84 ( mean 71 ) years recovering from an acute coronary event were r and omized to either a supervised out patient group-training programme ( n=50 ) or to a control group ( n=51 ) . The two groups were well balanced as regards clinical characteristics . The compliance in the training group was 87 % . Exercise tolerance increased in the trained group from 104 to 122 and 111 W after 3 and 12 months respectively . The corresponding values were 102 , 105 and 105 W among controls . Parameters , such as quality of life , self-estimated level of physical activity , fitness and well-being were grade d higher by the trained patients than those who served as controls on the two occasions of follow-up . CONCLUSIONS Aerobic group-training of elderly patients recovering from an acute coronary event beneficially influences physical fitness and several parameters expressing quality of life . Great care has to be taken to preserve the initial effects by continued training
Conclusions Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation is effective at reducing important clinical outcomes in patients with coronary heart disease .
While our analysis was constrained by the quality of included trials and missing information about intervention components , there appears to be little differential effect of variations in exercise intervention , particularly on mortality outcomes .
Background While the clinical benefits of exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation are well established , there is extensive variation in the interventions used within these trials .
It is unknown whether variations in individual components of these exercise interventions provide different relative contributions to overall clinical outcomes .
This study aims to systematic ally examine the relationship between individual components of the exercise intervention in cardiac rehabilitation ( such as intensity and frequency ) and clinical outcomes for people with coronary heart disease .