Research
Mixed
Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation significantly reduces all-cause hospital admissions in patients with coronary heart disease.
Participating in supervised exercise programs after a heart event can significantly reduce the number of times you need to be hospitalized. This is a key benefit of cardiac rehabilitation.
GoodSupportsMEDIUM confidence
Exercise-based CR likely results in a large reduction in all-cause hospitalisation (RR 0.58, 95% CI 0.43 to 0.77; 14 trials; NNTB 12, 95% CI 9 to 21; moderate certainty evidence).
Why this rating
Moderate certainty evidence from 14 RCTs, though there is evidence of small study bias.
Source
Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation for coronary heart disease
Grace Dibben et al. · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews · 2021
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd001800.pub4
Meta-analysis · 85 studiesCited 329×
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