Coronary disease & ACSCohort study
Effects of inpatient and outpatient cardiac rehabilitation on the 5-year prognosis in patients with acute myocardial infarction
- Retrospective cohort study
- multicentre
Authors' conclusion
This JROAD-CR study newly revealed that even short periods of CR during hospitalization are important, and continuing CR into the outpatient phase may further improve the prognosis of patients with AMI in this early reperfusion and short hospital staying era.
Study context
- Population
- Patients with acute MI from 72 institutes in Japan (JROAD registry, 2014)72 institutes
- Participants
- 4,411 patients
- Exposure
- Inpatient and/or outpatient cardiac rehabilitation (CR) vs no CR
- Outcome
- All-cause mortality
- Follow-up
- 5 years
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Hazard ratio (95% CI)
In(+)Out(-)
0.720(0.546–0.950)
In(+)Out(+)
0.575(0.338–0.977)
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Composite MACE
- No significant reduction
CR participation
- Inpatients who received CR
- 66.1% (n = 2917)
- Outpatients who received CR
- 9.91% (n = 437)
Original publication
Effects of inpatient and outpatient cardiac rehabilitation on the 5-year prognosis in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Eur J Prev Cardiol. Published 5 February 2026. doi:10.1093/eurjpc/zwaf705
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it