Older adults with heart failure benefit from rehabilitation programme

In the REHAB-HF trial, older patients who experienced acute decompensated heart failure (HF) and participated in a physical rehabilitation programme achieved improvements in physical function, Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ), and depression scores [1,2]. Older patients with acute decompensated HF are often physically frail, have a poor quality of life, and are frequently rehospitalised. Current guidelines fail to address physical functioning in older patients with acute decompensated HF. Accordingly, the REHAB-HF trial (NCT02196038) aimed to investigate the effects of a tailored, progressive rehabilitation programme in older adults who had been hospitalised for acute decompensated HF. Dr Dalane Kitzman (Wake Forest School of Medicine, NC, USA) presented the results. The trial randomised 349 patients to e...

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Posted on 9 July, 202129 July, 2021