Long-term follow-up of very old heart failure patients enrolled in a trial of exercise training

TY - JOUR

T1 - Long-term follow-up of very old heart failure patients enrolled in a trial of exercise training

AU - Witham, Miles D.

AU - Argo, Ishbel S.

AU - Johnston, Derek W.

AU - Struthers, Allan D.

AU - McMurdo, Marion E. T.

PY - 2007

Y1 - 2007

N2 - Little is known about how physical and psychological status changes with time in older heart failure patients. The authors followed up a cohort of 82 patients (mean age, 80.5 years) enrolled in a randomized controlled trial of exercise training in heart failure. Six-minute walk test, accelerometry, functional status, quality of life, anxiety, and depression were measured at baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and a mean of 19 months post-enrollment. There were no significant differences between the exercise and control groups at long-term follow-up. Six-minute walk distance declined by only 0.2 m/month in those attending final follow-up (vs 4.6 m/month in nonattenders; P=.03). Similar results were seen for other outcomes. Only a small proportion of the variance in change of any of the outcomes was explained by differences in baseline variables.

AB - Little is known about how physical and psychological status changes with time in older heart failure patients. The authors followed up a cohort of 82 patients (mean age, 80.5 years) enrolled in a randomized controlled trial of exercise training in heart failure. Six-minute walk test, accelerometry, functional status, quality of life, anxiety, and depression were measured at baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and a mean of 19 months post-enrollment. There were no significant differences between the exercise and control groups at long-term follow-up. Six-minute walk distance declined by only 0.2 m/month in those attending final follow-up (vs 4.6 m/month in nonattenders; P=.03). Similar results were seen for other outcomes. Only a small proportion of the variance in change of any of the outcomes was explained by differences in baseline variables.

U2 - 10.1111/j.1076-7460.2007.06488.x

DO - 10.1111/j.1076-7460.2007.06488.x

M3 - Article

C2 - 17617751

SN - 1076-7460

VL - 16

SP - 243

EP - 248

JO - American Journal of Geriatric Cardiology

JF - American Journal of Geriatric Cardiology

IS - 4

ER -