Comprehensive exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) has well-established efficacy
and effectiveness for improving patients' outcomes [
[1]
,
[2]
]. However, delivery of CR programs varies substantially [
[3]
] and these beneficial results are only achieved by high performing programs that
include most guideline-recommended components. CR programs that assess and address
multiple risk factors (six or more) or oversee prescription and monitoring of cardioprotective
medications reduce all-cause mortality (27% and 65% respectively), whereas programs
that do not include such components have no effect on these outcomes [
[3]
]. Moreover, CR programs that monitor, promote and achieve high levels of exercise
adherence by participants reduce all-cause and cardiovascular mortality (19% and 28%
respectively), in contrast to the lack of effect of CR programs that have suboptimal
exercise participation [
[4]
].To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: April 30, 2020
Accepted:
February 29,
2020
Received in revised form:
February 19,
2020
Received:
November 13,
2019
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© 2020 Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS) and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ). Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
