Does contemporary exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation improve quality of life for people with coronary artery disease? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine the effect of contemporary exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation on generic and disease-specific health related quality of life for people with coronary artery disease.

Design

Systematic review and meta-analysis.

Study eligibility criteria

Randomised controlled trials testing exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation versus no exercise control that recruited after 31 December 1999. On 30 July 2019, we searched the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, MEDLINE (Ovid), Embase (Ovid) and CINAHL (EBSCO) databases.

Study appraisal and synthesis

Studies were screened for inclusion by two independent reviewers. Risk of bias was assessed using the Cochrane risk of bias tool. Data were reported as pooled means (95% CI for between-group diff

SUBMITTER: McGregor G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7282413 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature