Cardiac Rehabilitation in Advanced aGE: EXercise TRaining and Active Follow-up CR-AGE-EXTRA Trial

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

80 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2008-04-30

Study Completion Date

2010-11-30

Brief Summary

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The goal of this trial is to assess the medium- (6 months) and long-term (12 months) effects of a Home-Based exercise program after in-Hospital comprehensive Cardiac Rehabilitation (CR) - as compared with usual care - on exercise capacity, health-related quality of life and health care services utilization, in patients (pts) older than 75 years after recent acute coronary syndromes or cardiac surgery.

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Detailed Description

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Data on the short-term efficacy of comprehensive CR are still limited in older pts with cardiovascular disease, and no information is available on maintenance of results achieved with CR over the medium- and long-term periods. As long-term adherence with exercise programs after comprehensive CR is generally poor, with only 30% reporting regular exercise at 12-month follow-up, guidelines recommend the implementation of methods aimed at improving adherence with such programs. The applicability to older pts of Home-Based exercise programs aimed at enhancing the adherence with prescriptions and maintaining the physiological benefits attained during the in-Hospital training period, is a further issue still to be clarified. The goal of this study is to determine in pts older than 75 years the medium- (6 months) and long-term (12 months) effects of a Home-Based exercise program after in-Hospital comprehensive CR, as compared with usual care, on exercise capacity, health-related quality of life and health care services utilization.

Pts older than 75 years who are candidate to an in-Hospital comprehensive CR program after acute coronary syndromes (ACS), percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or cardiac surgery (coronary artery by-pass graft and/or valvular surgery), will be screened for eligibility in the trial, and will be enrolled provided they do not meet any of the exclusion criteria. At baseline, at completion of CR program, and at 6- and 12-month follow-up, the following data will be assessed in all enrolled pts:

* functional capacity, expressed as total work capacity (TWC, watt) and maximal aerobic capacity (peak VO2, ml/kg/min) during a symptom-limited cardiopulmonary exercise test
* endurance, expressed by the distance covered during a 6-minute walk test (6MWT)
* lower limb muscular strength, measured with an isokinetic dynamometer
* health-related quality of life (SF 36 questionnaire)
* utilization rates of health care services

At discharge from in-Hospital CR program, pts will be randomly allocated to:

1. Home-Based exercise program, consisting of a prescription of a specific set of exercises detailed and actively recorded in a log book, with one reinforcement session at the Rehabilitation Centre each month for the first 6 months.
2. Usual care, consisting of recommendation on usefulness of physical exercise and standard follow-up visits and functional assessment at 6 and 12 months.

Conditions

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Cardiovascular Disease

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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A

A:Home-Based exercise program,-at discharge from in-Hospital CR program-, with one reinforcement session each month for the first 6 months.

Group Type OTHER

A: Home-Based exercise after Cardiac Rehabilitation

Intervention Type OTHER

Home-Based exercise program,after CR, with reinforcement sessions

B

Usual care, after CR, consisting of recommendation on usefulness of physical exercise and standard follow-up visits and functional assessment at 6 and 12 months.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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A: Home-Based exercise after Cardiac Rehabilitation

Home-Based exercise program,after CR, with reinforcement sessions

Intervention Type OTHER

Other Intervention Names

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Home-based exercise after CR

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Women and men
* Aged \>75 years
* Candidates to a 4-week
* In-Hospital comprehensive CR after ACS
* PCI
* Cardiac surgery

Exclusion Criteria

* Any medical condition that would make physical exercise unsafe (unstable angina, sustained ventricular arrhythmias, AF with elevated ventricular response, symptomatic COPD, uncontrolled arterial hypertension, uncontrolled diabetes, hyperthyroidism) or that would limit physical capacity (severe anemia (Hb\<10 gr/dl), moderate-to-severe chronic renal failure (creatinine \>2.5 mg/dl), severe arthritis, peripheral artery disease (Fontaine \>IIb), metastatic cancer)
* Symptomatic (NYHA II-IV) chronic heart failure
* Moderate-to-severe left ventricular systolic dysfunction (left ventricular ejection fraction \<35%)
* BADL disability
* Denied informed consent

Minimum Eligible Age

75 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No