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Association Between Physical Therapy and Mortality in Older Patients with Heart Failure and Chronic Kidney Disease

Key takeaways

This study looked at older people who have both heart failure and chronic kidney disease, and asked whether those who received physical therapy lived longer. Physical therapy here means supervised exercise and movement training. It is an observational study, so it shows a link, not proof that the therapy caused the lower death rate. People healthy enough to be sent to therapy tend to do better anyway. The abstract was not available, so the number of patients and the follow-up time are not known here.

Who did this work

Toshimi Sato (Fukushima Medical University) · Tomoyuki Morisawa (Kobe University Hospital) · Masakazu Saitoh (Juntendo University) · K. Iwata (The Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery) · Michitaka Kato (Nagoya City University) · Koji Sakurada (The Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery) · Yuji Kono (The Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery) · Daisuke Suzuki (The Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery) · Tetsuya Takahashi (Juntendo University)

Source

Paper · OpenAlex, CKD works · 2026-09-11
https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm15187043