Exercise for secondary prevention and quality of life in people with existing vascular disease

We are researching if exercise can prevent a second vascular incident in people with at least one vascular condition and improve their quality of life.

This project has now been completed, and our findings have been published.  

You can read a blog summarising our findings here

The citation for our publication is: 

The effects of exercise on secondary prevention and health-related quality of life in people with existing vascular disease: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.

Broderick C, Stewart M, Thomson K, Sellers C, Fenton C, Cowie J, Xu W, St Jean C, Charteris K, Nundy M, Vardhan V, Krishan P, Pistol J, Rodríguez L, Todhunter-Brown A, van Wijck F, Cameron S, Keerie C, Taylor RS, Stansby G, Mead G; NESSIE, NIHR Evidence Synthesis Scotland Initiative. EClinicalMedicine. 2025 May 9;83:103201. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2025.103201. PMID: 40630612; PMCID: PMC12235401.

You can read the full research article here

 

The protocol for this research project describes the methods we planned to use and can be freely accessed.

The effects of exercise on secondary prevention and quality of life in people with existing vascular disease: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

PROSPERO registration number: CRD42024517019

 

You can learn more by reading our blogs which describe why we carried out this research.

Click here to read a blog about this project

Click here for update one

Click here for update two

Click here for a summary of our findings

 

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