Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation for coronary heart disease: a meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Coronary heart disease is the most common reason for referral to exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) globally. However, the generalizability of previous meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is questioned. Therefore, a contemporary updated meta-analysis was undertaken.

Methods and results

Database and trial registry searches were conducted to September 2020, seeking RCTs of exercise-based interventions with ≥6-month follow-up, compared with no-exercise control for adults with myocardial infarction, angina pectoris, or following coronary artery bypass graft, or percutaneous coronary intervention. The outcomes of mortality, recurrent clinical events, and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) were pooled using random-effects meta-analysis, and cost-e

SUBMITTER: Dibben GO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9902155 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature