The aim of this ESC Guideline is to help health professionals manage people with heart
failure (HF) according to the best available evidence. Fortunately, we now have a wealth of …

or therapeutic medical strategies. However, the ESC Guidelines do not override in any way
whatsoever the individual responsibility of health professionals to make appropriate and …

Abstract Document Reviewers: Rudolf A. de Boer (CPG Review Coordinator)(Netherlands),
P. Christian Schulze (CPG Review Coordinator)(Germany), Magdy Abdelhamid (Egypt) …

The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) has published a series of guidelines on heart
failure (HF) over the last 25 years, most recently in 2016. Given the amount of new …

Background Chronic heart failure (HF) is a growing global health challenge. People with HF
experience substantial burden that includes low exercise tolerance, poor health‐related …

Background: Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) improves health-related quality of
life and exercise capacity in patients with heart failure (HF). However, CR efficacy in patients …

European guidelines on cardiovascular prevention in clinical practice were first published in
1994 and have been regularly updated, most recently in 2016, by the Sixth European Joint …

Background Despite numerous studies and meta-analyses the prognostic effect of cardiac
rehabilitation is still under debate. This update of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Outcome Study …

Background: Previous systematic reviews have indicated that exercise-based cardiac
rehabilitation (ExCR) for patients with heart failure (HF) has a beneficial effect on health …

Objectives: This study performed a contemporary systematic review and meta-analysis of
exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (ExCR) for heart failure (HF). Background: There is an …