Prevention & lipidsCohort study
Diagnosing chronotropic incompetence: a scoping review of current approaches and their application in a cardiac rehabilitation cohort
- Scoping review with retrospective cohort study
Authors' conclusion
Current methods to define CI and predict APMHR are inconsistent and problematic.
Study context
- Population
- Published studies defining chronotropic incompetence; patients in a cardiac rehabilitation program
- Participants
- 86 studies
- Exposure
- Definitions of chronotropic incompetence and age-predicted maximal heart rate (APMHR) prediction formulas
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Definitions of chronotropic incompetence and APMHR prediction formulas identified
Studies included
86
Distinct methods to define chronotropic incompetence
17
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Diagnosing chronotropic incompetence: a scoping review of current approaches and their application in a cardiac rehabilitation cohort. Eur J Prev Cardiol. Published 5 May 2026. doi:10.1093/eurjpc/zwag253
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it