Should supervised exercise or physical activity counseling be used to improve physical fitness in elderly patients with permanent atrial fibrillation?

Due to few randomised patients and outcomes, we could not evaluate the real impact of exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation on mortality or serious adverse events. The evidence showed no clinically relevant effect on health-related quality of life. Pooled data showed a positive effect on the surrogate outcome of physical exercise capacity, but due to the low number of patients and the moderate to very low-quality of the underpinning evidence, we could not be certain of the magnitude of the effect. Future high-quality randomised trials are needed to assess the benefits and harms of exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation for adults with atrial fibrillation on patient-relevant outcomes.

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Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation for adults with atrial fibrillation

Risom

Zwisler

Johansen

et al. 2017

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

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Should supervised exercise or physical activity counseling be used to improve physical fitness in elderly patients with permanent atrial fibrillation?

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