Research
Adherence
Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation improves health-related quality of life in a subset of patients, though evidence is heterogeneous.
While exercise-based cardiac rehab may not improve your quality of life in every case, it does so in the majority of patients. Focus on the proven mortality benefits, as QoL improvements are a positive bonus for many.
GoodQualifiesMEDIUM confidence
Only in seven out of 10 trials was there evidence of a significantly higher level of quality of life with exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation than control at follow-up
Why this rating
Based on 10 trials, but meta-analysis was not possible due to heterogeneity in outcome measures.
Source
Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation for coronary heart disease
Balraj S Heran et al. · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews · 2011
Meta-analysis · 47 studiesCited 1,830×
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