Matthew A Taylor, Julia L Berkowitz, Kevin Chen, Julianne DeAngelis, Wen-Chih Wu
{"title":"Impact of Prior COVID-19 Infections on Cardiac Rehabilitation Completion Rates and Outcomes.","authors":"Matthew A Taylor, Julia L Berkowitz, Kevin Chen, Julianne DeAngelis, Wen-Chih Wu","doi":"10.1097/hcr.0000000000000841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/hcr.0000000000000841","url":null,"abstract":"This is a retrospective cohort study designed to evaluate the impact of having a prior coronavirus disease 2019 COVID-19 infection on cardiac rehabilitation (CR) completion rates and outcomes.","PeriodicalId":15192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140798449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David L DeLara, Lisa M Pollack, Hilary K Wall, Anping Chang, Linda Schieb, Kevin Matthews, Haley Stolp, Quinn R Pack, Michele Casper, Sandra L Jackson
{"title":"County-Level Cardiac Rehabilitation and Broadband Availability: Opportunities for Hybrid Care in the United States.","authors":"David L DeLara, Lisa M Pollack, Hilary K Wall, Anping Chang, Linda Schieb, Kevin Matthews, Haley Stolp, Quinn R Pack, Michele Casper, Sandra L Jackson","doi":"10.1097/hcr.0000000000000865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/hcr.0000000000000865","url":null,"abstract":"Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) improves patient outcomes and quality of life and can be provided virtually through hybrid CR. However, little is known about CR availability in conjunction with broadband access, a requirement for hybrid CR. This study examined the intersection of CR and broadband availability at the county level, nationwide.","PeriodicalId":15192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140798465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maria L Buckley, Andrea M Wycoff, Kayla Mahoney, Jacqueline F Pierce, James Simmons, Alessandra Adami
{"title":"Improvements in Dyspnea Following Traditional Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Patients With Long COVID.","authors":"Maria L Buckley, Andrea M Wycoff, Kayla Mahoney, Jacqueline F Pierce, James Simmons, Alessandra Adami","doi":"10.1097/HCR.0000000000000862","DOIUrl":"10.1097/HCR.0000000000000862","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10901444/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139971966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Importance of Cardiac Rehabilitation in Older Adults.","authors":"Semenawit Burka, Yehia Ali, Daniel E Forman","doi":"10.1097/HCR.0000000000000845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/HCR.0000000000000845","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139971970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Donald S Shepard, Shehreen Zakir, Diann E Gaalema, Philip A Ades
{"title":"Cost-Effectiveness of Cardiac Rehabilitation in Older Adults With Coronary Heart Disease.","authors":"Donald S Shepard, Shehreen Zakir, Diann E Gaalema, Philip A Ades","doi":"10.1097/HCR.0000000000000827","DOIUrl":"10.1097/HCR.0000000000000827","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>While cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is recommended and effective following acute cardiac events, it remains underutilized, particularly in older adults. A study of 601 099 Medicare beneficiaries ≥65 yr hospitalized for coronary heart disease compared 5-yr mortality in users and nonusers of CR. Using instrumental variables (IV), CR improved mortality by 8.0% ( P < .001). A validation analysis based on 70 040 propensity-based (PB) matched pairs gave a similar gain (8.3%, P < .0001). The present cost-effectiveness analysis builds on these mortality results.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using the framework of the Second Panel on Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, we calculated the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) gained due to CR. We accessed the costs from this cohort, inflated to 2022 prices, and assessed the relationship of quality-adjusted life years (QALY) to life years from a systematic review. We estimated the ICER of CR by modeling lifetime costs and QALY from national life tables using IV and PB.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Using IV, CR added 1.344 QALY (95% CI, 0.543-2.144) and $40 472 in costs over the remaining lifetimes of participants. The ICER was $30 188 (95% CI, $18 175-$74 484)/QALY over their lifetimes. Using the PB analysis, the corresponding lifetime values were 2.018 (95% CI, 1.001-3.035) QALY, $66 590, and an ICER of $32 996 (95% CI, $21 942-$66 494)/QALY.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Cardiac rehabilitation was highly cost-effective using guidelines established by the World Health Organization and the US Department of Health and Human Services. The favorable clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of CR, along with low use by Medicare beneficiaries, support the need to increase CR use.</p>","PeriodicalId":15192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10922540/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41202059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brian D Duscha, Leanna M Ross, Andrew L Hoselton, Lucy W Piner, Carl F Pieper, William E Kraus
{"title":"A Detailed Analysis of Cardiac Rehabilitation on 180-Day All-Cause Hospital Readmission and Mortality.","authors":"Brian D Duscha, Leanna M Ross, Andrew L Hoselton, Lucy W Piner, Carl F Pieper, William E Kraus","doi":"10.1097/HCR.0000000000000835","DOIUrl":"10.1097/HCR.0000000000000835","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is endorsed for coronary artery disease (CAD), but studies report inconsistent findings regarding efficacy. The objective of this study was to determine whether confounding factors, potentially contributing to these heterogeneous findings, impact the effect of CR on all-cause readmission and mortality.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Patients (n = 2641) with CAD, CR eligible, and physically able were identified. Electronic medical records were inspected individually for each patient to extract demographic, clinical characteristic, readmission, and mortality information. Patients (n = 214) attended ≥1 CR session (CR group). Survival was considered free from: all-cause readmission; or composite outcome of all-cause readmission or death. Cox proportional hazards models, adjusting for demographics, comorbidities, and discharge criteria, were used to determine HR with 95% CI and to compare 180-d survival rates between the CR and no-CR groups.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>During 180 d of follow-up, 12.1% and 18.7% of the CR and non-CR patients were readmitted to the hospital. There was one death (0.5%) in the CR group, while 98 deaths (4.0%) occurred in the non-CR group. After adjustment for age, sex, race, depression, anxiety, dyslipidemia, hypertension, obesity, smoking, type 2 diabetes, and discharge criteria, the final model revealed a significant 42.7% reduction in readmission or mortality risk for patients who attended CR (HR = 0.57: 95% CI, 0.33-0.98; P = .043).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Regardless of demographic characteristics, comorbidities, and cardiovascular discharge criteria, the risk of 180-d all-cause readmission or death was markedly decreased in patients who attended CR compared with those who did not.</p>","PeriodicalId":15192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10913862/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138798796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jeffrey M Ashburner, Taylor D Carmichael, Romit Bhattacharya, Pradeep Natarajan, Daniel E Singer, Anne N Thorndike
{"title":"A Lifestyle Modification Program for Secondary Prevention of Atrial Fibrillation: Introductory Findings.","authors":"Jeffrey M Ashburner, Taylor D Carmichael, Romit Bhattacharya, Pradeep Natarajan, Daniel E Singer, Anne N Thorndike","doi":"10.1097/HCR.0000000000000853","DOIUrl":"10.1097/HCR.0000000000000853","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10913854/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138798816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Observational Studies of Cardiac Rehabilitation: ANALYTIC CHALLENGES, SIGNIFICANT OPPORTUNITIES.","authors":"Jad Bader, Justin M Bachmann","doi":"10.1097/HCR.0000000000000866","DOIUrl":"10.1097/HCR.0000000000000866","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139971967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ursula Rohrer, Anja Reischl, Martin Manninger, Ronald K Binder, Lukas Fiedler, Michael Gruska, Johann Altenberger, Andreas Dorr, Clemens Steinwender, Markus Stuehlinger, Manfred Wonisch, Birgit Zirngast, David Zweiker, Andreas Zirlik, Daniel Scherr
{"title":"Cardiovascular Rehabilitation With a WCD-Data From the CR3 Study (Cardiac Rehab Retrospective Review).","authors":"Ursula Rohrer, Anja Reischl, Martin Manninger, Ronald K Binder, Lukas Fiedler, Michael Gruska, Johann Altenberger, Andreas Dorr, Clemens Steinwender, Markus Stuehlinger, Manfred Wonisch, Birgit Zirngast, David Zweiker, Andreas Zirlik, Daniel Scherr","doi":"10.1097/HCR.0000000000000832","DOIUrl":"10.1097/HCR.0000000000000832","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Patients at risk for sudden cardiac death may temporarily need a wearable cardioverter-defibrillator (WCD). Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) has a class I recommendation in patients with cardiac disease. The aim of this study was to evaluate the safety and feasibility of undergoing CR with a WCD.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We performed a retrospective analysis of all patients with a WCD who completed a CR in Austria (2010-2020).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Patients (n = 55, 60 ± 11 yr, 16% female) with a median baseline left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of 36 (30, 41)% at the start of CR showed a daily WCD wearing duration of 23.4 (22, 24) hr. There were 2848 (8 [1, 26]/patient) automatic alarms and 340 (3 [1, 7]/patient) manual alarms generated. No shocks were delivered by the WCD during the CR period. One patient had recurrent hemodynamically tolerated ventricular tachycardias that were controlled with antiarrhythmic drugs.No severe WCD-associated adverse events occurred during the CR stay of a median 28 (28, 28) d. The fabric garment and the device setting needed to be adjusted in two patients to diminish inappropriate automatic alarms. Left ventricular ejection fraction after CR increased significantly to 42 (30, 44)% ( P < .001). Wearable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy was stopped due to LVEF restitution in 53% of patients. In 36% of patients an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator was implanted, 6% had LVEF improvement after coronary revascularization, one patient received a heart transplantation (2%), two patients discontinued WCD treatment at their own request (4%).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Completing CR is feasible and safe for WCD patients and may contribute positively to the restitution of cardiac function.</p>","PeriodicalId":15192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10913858/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138460103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Renan Massena Costa, Hélcio Kanegusuku, Gabriel Grizzo Cucato, Nelson Wolosker, Raphael Mendes Ritti-Dias, Marilia de Almeida Correia
{"title":"Arm Crank Exercise Training Improves Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Patients With Symptomatic Peripheral Artery Disease: Randomized Controlled Trial.","authors":"Renan Massena Costa, Hélcio Kanegusuku, Gabriel Grizzo Cucato, Nelson Wolosker, Raphael Mendes Ritti-Dias, Marilia de Almeida Correia","doi":"10.1097/HCR.0000000000000829","DOIUrl":"10.1097/HCR.0000000000000829","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138460102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}