Cardiac Rehabilitation Protects Against the Expansion of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

Journal of the American Heart Association
Atsuko NakayamaIssei Komuro

Abstract

Virtually no reports on the effects of exercise in patients with a small abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) exist. We conducted a retrospective cohort study on 1515 patients with a small AAA before surgery at 2 high-volume hospitals in Tokyo, Japan, from April 2004 to September 2015. A carefully modified cardiac rehabilitation program without excessive blood pressure elevation during exercise was prescribed to 50 patients with an AAA. Using propensity score matching, mortality and clinical outcomes, including AAA expansion rate, were compared between 2 groups: rehabilitation group and nonrehabilitation group. The background characteristics of the rehabilitation group (n=49) and the nonrehabilitation group (n=163) were almost identical. The risk for AAA repair was much lower in the rehabilitation group after matching (before matching: hazard ratio, 0.43; 95% confidence interval, 0.25-0.72;P=0.001; and after matching: hazard ratio, 0.19; 95% confidence interval, 0.07-0.50;P<0.001). AAA expansion rate was slower in the rehabilitation group (before matching: rehabilitation versus nonrehabilitation group, 2.3±3.7 versus 3.8±3.4 mm/y [P=0.008]; after matching: rehabilitation versus nonrehabilitation group, 2.1±3.0 versus 4.5±4.0 mm/y [P...Continue Reading

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