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Cardiac rehabilitation for heart failure and atrial fibrillation: a propensity- matched study

Open Heart

Background Atrial fibrillation (AF) is common in individuals with heart failure (HF). Individuals with HF and AF may have a reduced functional capacity and quality of life (QoL) which leads to hospital admission and burden on clinical services. Evidence supported the effect of exercise training in individuals with HF.

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Exercise?based cardiac rehabilitation for adults with heart failure – 2023 Cochrane systematic review and meta?analysis

European Journal of Heart Failure

This 2023 Cochrane review of 60 randomized trials in 8728 heart failure patients, confirms the benefits of participation in exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (ExCR), including reduced risk of hospitalization and a clinically meaningful improvement in health-related quality of life.

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Aerobic Exercise Attenuates Pressure Overload–Induced Myocardial Remodeling and Myocardial Inflammation via Upregulating miR-574-3p in Mice

Circulation: Heart Failure

Circulation: Heart Failure, Ahead of Print. BACKGROUND:Exercise training can promote cardiac rehabilitation, thereby reducing cardiovascular disease mortality and hospitalization rates.

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Body Composition Risk Assessment of All‐Cause Mortality in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease Completing Cardiac Rehabilitation

Journal of the American Heart Association

This study aims to evaluate the association of body composition with cardiovascular outcomes and allcause mortality in patients with CAD.Methods and ResultsBody composition was obtained via bioelectrical impedance analysis from 1291 patients with CAD before starting cardiac rehabilitation.

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Championing Change: Celebrating Cardiometabolic Health Congress (CMHC) Women Faculty

Cardiometabolic Health Congress

Taub, MD : She is a Professor of Medicine, board-certified cardiologist, and founding director of the Step Family Foundation Cardiac Rehabilitation and Wellness Center at UC San Diego. Fatima Cody Stanford, MD: Practices and teaches at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

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CO-CREATION-HF protocol: clinical trial to evaluate the impact of a comprehensive and hybrid cardiac rehabilitation model on patients with heart failure

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

IntroductionComprehensive, hybrid cardiac rehabilitation (CR) models have been scantly investigated in heart failure (HF) populations, particularly in low-resource settings. 152 HF patients (NYHA class II or III) will be recruited consecutively, and randomly assigned using permuted blocks; allocation will be concealed.