ArticlePloS one2020
Association between attending exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation and cardiovascular risk factors at one-year post myocardial infarction.
Article in PloS one, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06924034 (Early-phase Exercise-based Comprehensive Cardiac Rehabilitation Program After Myocardial Infarction), which is not on this map. Cited by 11 papers.
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Early-phase Exercise-based Comprehensive Cardiac Rehabilitation Program After Myocardial Infarction: A Randomized Controlled Trial
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Early-Phase Exercise-Based Comprehensive Cardiac Rehabilitation Program after Myocardial Infarction: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Acta Cardiologica Sinica · 2026Article
- Effects of Exercise-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation on Risk Factors, Fitness, and Quality of Life in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Emergency Department Versus Outpatient Routes.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Sex and Gender-Based Differences in Outcomes of Cardiac Rehabilitation Following Acute Myocardial Infarction.Current atherosclerosis reports · 2025Review
- Cardiovascular Health in Cardiac Rehabilitation: Applying the American Heart Association Life's Simple 7 Framework in a Center-Based Cohort.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Article
- Effects of Shexiang Baoxin pill combined with exercise rehabilitation training on long-term prognosis of CTO-PCI patients: study protocol for randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Adherence to outpatient cardiac rehabilitation and related factors in STEMI after PCI in China: a sequential explanatory mixed method study protocol.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2025Article
- The State of Cardiac Rehabilitation in Saudi Arabia: Barriers, Facilitators, and Policy Implications.Cureus · 2023Review
- [Characteristics of the population in phase II of cardiac rehabilitation in a level IV clinic].Revista de salud publica (Bogota, Colombia) · 2023Article
- Achilles Tendon Thickening as a Risk Factor of Cardiovascular Events after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.Journal of atherosclerosis and thrombosis · 2023Article
- The effect of self-management intervention program on the lifestyle of postmyocardial infarction patients.Journal of education and health promotion · 2021Article
- Cardiac rehabilitation in older adults: Apropos yet significantly underutilized.Progress in cardiovascular diseasesReview
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Abstract
backgroundRandomized trials confirm the benefits of exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation on cardiovascular risk factors. Whether exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation provides the same favourable effects in real-life cardiac rehabilitation settings, in the modern era of myocardial infarction treatment, is less well known. We examined the association between attending exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation and improvements in cardiovascular risk factors at one-year post myocardial infarction in patients included in the Swedish heart disease registry, SWEDEHEART.
methodsIn this retrospective registry-based cohort study, we included 19 136 patients post myocardial infarction (75% men, 62.8±8.7 years) who were registered in SWEDEHEART between 2011 and 2013. The association between attending exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (43% participation rate) and changes in cardiovascular risk profile between baseline and one-year follow-up was assessed using multivariable regression analysis adjusting for age, comorbidities and medication.
resultsAttenders more often reported to have stopped smoking (men 64% vs 50%; women 64% vs 53%, p<0.001 for both, only smokers at baseline considered), be more physically active (men 3.9±2.5 vs 3.4±2.7 days/week; women 3.8±2.6 vs 3.0±2.8 days/week, p<0.001 for both) and achieved a slightly larger reduction in triglycerides (men -0.2±0.8 vs -0.1±0.9 mmol/L, p = 0.001; women -0.1±0.6 vs 0.0±0.8 mmol/L, p = 0.01) at one-year compared to non-attenders. Male attenders gained less weight (+0.0±5.7 vs +0.3±5.7 kg, p = 0.01) while female attenders achieved better lipid control (total cholesterol -1.2±1.4 vs -0.9±1.4 mmol/L, p<0.001; low-density lipoprotein -1.2±1.2 vs -0.9 ±1.2 mmol/L, p<0.001) compared to non-attenders.
conclusionsIn an unselected registry cohort of patients post myocardial infarction, compared to non-attenders those attending exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation achieved significantly larger improvements in cardiovascular risk factors at one-year after the acute event.
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