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Bakker, EA, Snoek, JA, Meindersma, EP, Hopman, MTE, Bellersen, L, Verbeek, ALM, Thijssen, DHJ and Eijsvogels, TMH (2017) Absence of Fitness Improvement Is Associated with Outcomes in Heart Failure Patients. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. ISSN 1530-0315
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PURPOSE: To examine the clinical impact of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and improvements in CRF after cardiac rehabilitation (CR) in heart failure (HF) patients for their risk of all-cause mortality and unplanned hospitalization. Secondly, to investigate possible factors associated with the absence of improvement in CRF after rehabilitation. METHODS: We included 155 HF patients receiving CR between October 2009 and January 2015. Patients performed an incremental bicycle test to assess CRF through peak oxygen uptake (VO2-peak) before and after CR-based supervised exercise training. Patients were classified as responders or non-responders based on pre-to-post CR changes in VO2-peak (≥6% and <6%, respectively). Cox proportional hazards models evaluated all-cause mortality and unplanned hospitalization during 5 years of follow-up. Patient characteristics, HF features and co-morbidities were used to predict changes in VO2-peak using logistic regression analysis. RESULTS: Seventy HF patients (45%) were classified as responder. Non-responders had a significantly higher risk of all-cause mortality or hospitalization (HR = 2.15, 95% CI = 1.17-3.94) compared to responders. This was even higher in non-responders with low CRF at baseline (HR = 4.88, 95% CI = 1.71-13.93). Factors associated with non-response to CR were age (OR = 1.07/year, 95% CI = 1.03-1.11), baseline VO2-peak (OR = 1.16/ml/min/kg, 95% CI = 1.06-1.26) and adherence to CR (OR = 0.98/percentage, 95% CI = 0.96-0.998). CONCLUSION: Independent from baseline CRF, the inability to improve VO2-peak by CR doubled the risk of death or unplanned hospitalization. The combination of lower baseline CRF and non-response was associated with even poorer clinical outcomes. Especially older HF patients with higher baseline VO2-peak and lower adherence have a higher probability of becoming a non-responder.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This is the accepted version of an article which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1249/MSS.0000000000001429 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 1106 Human Movement And Sports Science |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC1200 Sports Medicine |
| Divisions: | Sport & Exercise Sciences |
| Publisher: | American College of Sports Medicine |
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| Date Deposited: | 02 Oct 2017 08:07 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 03:48 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1249/MSS.0000000000001429 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/7245 |
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