Cardiac rehabilitation: Effective yet underutilized in patients with cardiovascular disease

Cardiac rehabilitation is a comprehensive program that treats patients with multiple cardiac conditions including post‐myocardial infarction, stable angina, post‐coronary artery bypass surgery, chronic heart failure, and peripheral vascular disease with structured exercise, and nutrition and risk factor counseling. It is an effective tool that has been shown to improve not only quality of life but also reduce adverse cardiac events, including death. While the value of cardiac rehabilitation is supported by a large body of evidence and its recommendation by the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology it is significantly underutilized due to both patient and systemic factors. Continued efforts should be made to remove the obstacles to make cardiac rehabilitation available to all those who qualify.

• Publication year

  2022

• Venue

  Clinical Cardiology

• Publication date

  2022-09-02

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1002/clc.23911PMID 36054282PMCID 9707561
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