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A Peretti1,2, Alessandro Maloberti3,4, L Garatti1,2
1Cardiac Rehabilitation, Cardiology 4, Niguarda Hospital, Piazza Ospedale Maggiore 3, 20159, Milan, Italy.
Introduction:
Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) improves the functional capacity and the prognosis of patients with coronary artery disease.
Aim:
Our study was aimed at assessing the relationship between functional improvement (evaluated with 6-min Walk Test-6MWT) and the improvement in left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) after CR.
Methods:
We collected data from 249 patients (age 66.79 ± 11.06 years; males 81.52%) with a recent history of Acute Coronary Syndrome that performed CR. The functional improvement after CR was expressed as the Δ between distance covered at the final versus the initial 6-min Walking Test (6-MWT), while LVEF was calculated with transthoracic echocardiogram at the beginning and at the end of the CR.
Results:
Patients were divided accordingly to their pre-rehab LVEF (≥ 55% vs < 55%). With superimposable age and baseline 6MWT distance covered (434.58 vs 405.12 m, p = 0.08), the latter group presented higher Δ meter values at 6MWT (167.93 vs 193.97 m, p = 0.018). However, no statistically significant positive correlation between Δ meters and Δ LVEF was found. Moreover, linear regression analyses found that nor baseline LVEF nor Δ LVEF were significant determinants of Δ meters when considering the whole group, with age, basal 6MWT and peak CK-MB as additional covariates in the model.
Conclusion:
Although it could be expected that an increase in LVEF is related to the functional improvement after CR, no significant correlation was found in our population.
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