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Editorial
. 2020 Jul;106(14):1035-1037.
doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2019-316497. Epub 2020 Apr 16.

Cardiac rehabilitation in older adults: is it just lifestyle?

Tone M Norekvål  1   2 , Heather G Allore  3   4
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Editorial

Cardiac rehabilitation in older adults: is it just lifestyle?

Tone M Norekvål et al. Heart. 2020 Jul.
No abstract available

Keywords: cardiac rehabilitation; cardiac risk factors and prevention; health care delivery.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Moving beyond traditional cardiac rehabilitation programmes in multimorbid older adults with functional decline by adding novel and tailored components targeting vulnerability factors.
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