Cardiac Rehabilitation for Patients With Heart Failure

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Title: Cardiac Rehabilitation for Patients With Heart Failure
Authors: Bozkurt, Biykem, Fonarow, Gregg C., Goldberg, Lee R., Guglin, Maya, Josephson, Richard A., Forman, Daniel E., Lin, Grace, Lindenfeld, JoAnn, O'Connor, Chris, Panjrath, Gurusher, Piña, Ileana L., Shah, Tina, Sinha, Shashank S., Wolfel, Eugene, ACC’s Heart Failure and Transplant Section and Leadership Council
Contributors: Medicine, School of Medicine
Source: Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 77:1454-1469
Publisher Information: Elsevier BV, 2021.
Publication Year: 2021
Subject Terms: Heart Failure, Cardiac Rehabilitation, Cardiac rehabilitation, Functional status, Heart failure, Activity, 3. Good health, Exercise training, 03 medical and health sciences, Functional Status, Treatment Outcome, 0302 clinical medicine, Quality of Life, Humans, Exercise
Description: Cardiac rehabilitation is defined as a multidisciplinary program that includes exercise training, cardiac risk factor modification, psychosocial assessment, and outcomes assessment. Exercise training and other components of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) are safe and beneficial and result in significant improvements in quality of life, functional capacity, exercise performance, and heart failure (HF)-related hospitalizations in patients with HF. Despite outcome benefits, cost-effectiveness, and strong practice guideline recommendations, CR remains underused. Clinicians, health care leaders, and payers should prioritize incorporating CR as part of the standard of care for patients with HF.
Document Type: Article
File Description: application/pdf
Language: English
ISSN: 0735-1097
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2021.01.030
Access URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33736829
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http://www.jacc.org/doi/abs/10.1016/j.jacc.2021.01.030
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Abstract:Cardiac rehabilitation is defined as a multidisciplinary program that includes exercise training, cardiac risk factor modification, psychosocial assessment, and outcomes assessment. Exercise training and other components of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) are safe and beneficial and result in significant improvements in quality of life, functional capacity, exercise performance, and heart failure (HF)-related hospitalizations in patients with HF. Despite outcome benefits, cost-effectiveness, and strong practice guideline recommendations, CR remains underused. Clinicians, health care leaders, and payers should prioritize incorporating CR as part of the standard of care for patients with HF.
ISSN:07351097
DOI:10.1016/j.jacc.2021.01.030