Editorial commentary: Cardiac rehabilitation: Major benefits and minor risks

In the current issue of Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine, McMahon and colleagues provide a detailed overview of the major benefits and minor risks of cardiac rehabilitation (CR), especially in the post-acute care of coronary artery disease (CAD), valvular heart disease, cardiac transplant, and hear...

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Published inTrends in cardiovascular medicine Vol. 27; no. 6; pp. 426 - 427
Main Authors Foster, Jennifer G., MD, Lewis, Steven F., Phd, Hennekens, Charles H., MD, DrPH
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Elsevier Inc 01.08.2017
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Angina pectoris
Cardiology
Cardiovascular
Cardiovascular disease
Coronary vessels
Exercise
Health risk assessment
Heart attacks
Heart diseases
Heart failure
Hypertension
Medical referrals
Patients
Physical fitness
Physiology
Quality of life
Rehabilitation
Subacute care
Transplants & implants
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Summary:In the current issue of Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine, McMahon and colleagues provide a detailed overview of the major benefits and minor risks of cardiac rehabilitation (CR), especially in the post-acute care of coronary artery disease (CAD), valvular heart disease, cardiac transplant, and heart failure. Based on a persuasive totality of evidence demonstrating the major benefits and minor risks of CR in patients without the aforementioned contraindications, including the low rate of complications, the increasingly broad indications for referral to CR now include: myocardial infarction, percutaneous coronary intervention, coronary artery bypass grafting, cardiac transplantation, peripheral artery disease with claudication, and heart failure. In these regards, McMahon and colleagues make an important and timely contribution. 1 S.R. McMahon, P.A. Ades, P.D. Thompson, The role of cardiac rehabilitation in patients with heart disease, Trends Cardiovasc Med, 2017 2 A.S. Leon, Cardiac Rehabilitation and Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease: an American Heart Association Scientific Statement From the Council on Clinical Cardiology (Subcommittee on Exercise, Cardiac Rehabilitation, and Prevention) and the Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism (Subcommittee on Physical Activity), in Collaboration with the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Circulation, Vol. 111, Iss. 3, 2005, 369-376 3 W.M. Mampuya,...
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ISSN:1050-1738
1873-2615
DOI:10.1016/j.tcm.2017.03.001