Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32514659›Full record

ReviewCurrent heart failure reports2020

Cardiac Rehab for Functional Improvement.

Elizabeth Epstein, Ashley Rosander, Aryana Pazargadi, Pam Taub

Abstract readReview
PubMed Publisher
In one paragraph

Review in Current heart failure reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Effects of a cardiac rehabilitation program on anthropometric and functional parameters: an observational pre-post study.The Egyptian heart journal : (EHJ) : official bulletin of the Egyptian Society of Cardiology · 2026
    Article
  3. Review
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Rethinking the Meaning of Palliation in Heart Failure.Current heart failure reports · 2020
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Elizabeth EpsteinUniversity of California, San Diego, 9300 Campus Point Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA.
Ashley RosanderUniversity of California, San Diego, 9300 Campus Point Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA.
Aryana PazargadiUniversity of California, San Diego, 9300 Campus Point Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA.
Pam TaubUniversity of California, San Diego, 9300 Campus Point Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA. ptaub@health.ucsd.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewCardiac Rehabilitation (CR) was originally designed to return patients to their prior level of functioning after myocardial infarction (MI). Research has since revealed the mortality benefit of CR, and CR has been given a class 1A recommendation by the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology (AHA/ACC). In this review, we shift our focus back to function and highlight the most recent research on the functional benefits of CR in a broad range of cardiac diseases and conditions. RECENT

findingsCurrently, CR is indicated for patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), peripheral arterial disease (PAD), transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), left ventricular assist devices (LVADs), and cardiac transplant. Among patients with those conditions, CR has been shown to improve exercise capacity, cognition, mental health, and overall quality of life. As survival of cardiac diseases increases, CR emerges as an increasingly important tool to lend quality to patients' lives and therefore give meaning to survival.

Indexed as

American Heart AssociationQuality ImprovementCardiac RehabilitationDisease ProgressionHeart DiseasesHumansUnited StatesVentricular FunctionCardiac rehabilitationExercise trainingPost-myocardial infarction careSecondary prevention

Identifiers

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.