Tailored, earlier cardiac rehab program shows physical, emotional benefits for heart failure patients
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - May 16, 2021 - Heart failure (HF) - when the heart can t pump enough blood and oxygen through the body - affects approximately 6.2 million adults in the United States and is the primary cause of hospitalization in the elderly. Unfortunately, older adults with heart failure often have poor outcomes resulting in reduced quality of life, high mortality and frequent rehospitalizations.
Despite many efforts to improve the prognosis in these patients, most previous studies testing a wide range of interventions were not successful.
Scientists from the Wake Forest, Duke University and Thomas Jefferson schools of medicine tried a different approach - tailoring rehabilitation treatment to the individual and beginning it while the patient was still recovering in the hospital, which is not standard care for these older HF patients.