Exercise-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation and All-Cause Mortality Among Patients With Atrial Fibrillation.

ABSTRACT: Background There is limited evidence of long-term impact of exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) on clinical end points for patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). We therefore compared 18-month all-cause mortality, hospitalization, stroke, and heart failure in patients with AF and an electronic medical record of exercise-based CR to matched controls. Methods and Results This retrospective cohort study included patient data obtained on February 3, 2021 from a global federated health research network. Patients with AF undergoing exercise-based CR were propensity-score matched to patients with AF without exercise-based CR by age, sex, race, comorbidities, cardiovascular procedures, and cardiovascular medication. We ascertained 18-month incidence of all-cause mortality, hospitalization,

SUBMITTER: Buckley BJR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8477861 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature