The impact of exercise training for chronic heart failure patients with cardiac resynchronization therapy: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objective

Systematically review the current published literature on the impact of exercise training (ET) in chronic heart failure (CHF) patients who were conducted cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT).

Methods

PubMed, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Library of Controlled Trails databases were searched for trials comparing the additional effects of ET in CHF patients after CRT implantation with no exercise or usual care control up until 2020.03.07. We independently screened the literature, extracted data, employed the tool for the assEssment of Study qualiTy and reporting in EXercise (TESTEX) to evaluate study quality and risk of bias, and performed meta-analysis with Revman 5.3 software.

Results

Eight trials were identified for qualitative analysis and 7 ra

SUBMITTER: Guo R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8021321 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature