Trial reportJournal of the American Heart Association2024
Atrial Fibrillation Status and Physical Rehabilitation in Older Patients With Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: An Analysis From the REHAB-HF Trial.
Trial report in Journal of the American Heart Association, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02196038 (REHAB-HF), which is not on this map. Cited by 2 papers.
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REHAB-HF: A Trial of Rehabilitation Therapy in Older Acute Heart Failure Patients
Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed.
- The impact of cardiac rehabilitation on rehospitalization and mortality rates in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Review
- Addressing exercise phobia in atrial fibrillation patients post-radiofrequency ablation: a nursing perspective.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe REHAB-HF (Rehabilitation Therapy in Older Acute Heart Failure Patients) trial demonstrated that a transitional, tailored, progressive rehabilitation intervention improved physical function, 6-minute walk distance, frailty, quality-of-life, and depression in older patients hospitalized for acute decompensated heart failure. This analysis assessed the impact of atrial fibrillation (AF) on intervention benefits. METHODS AND
resultsOf 349 enrolled patients hospitalized for acute decompensated heart failure (mean age 72.7±8.1 years), 176 (50.4%) had AF. Participants were randomly assigned to 12-week rehabilitation intervention or attention control. The primary outcome was Short Physical Performance Battery score at 3 months. Participants with AF were older (74.4±8.3 versus 70.8±7.5,
conclusionsIn older, hospitalized patients with acute decompensated heart failure, the presence of AF did not significantly affect the benefit of the rehabilitation intervention on physical function and quality of life. The intervention appears safe and effective regardless of AF status. REGISTRATION: URL: https://www.clinicaltrials.gov; Unique Identifier: NCT02196038.
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