Trial reportVascular medicine (London, England)2015
Community-based walking exercise for peripheral artery disease: An exploratory pilot study.
Trial report in Vascular medicine (London, England), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 11 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 11 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- 2026 ACC/AHA Clinical Performance and Quality Measures for Patients With Peripheral Artery Disease: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Performance Measures.Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2026Guideline
- Behaviour change interventions to promote physical activity in people with intermittent claudication: the OPTIMA systematic review.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2025Pooled it
- 2024 ACC/AHA/AACVPR/APMA/ABC/SCAI/SVM/SVN/SVS/SIR/VESS Guideline for the Management of Lower Extremity Peripheral Artery Disease: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines.Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2024Guideline
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- A systematic review of exercise intervention reporting quality and dose in studies of intermittent claudication.Vascular · 2023Pooled it
- Safety of home-based exercise for people with intermittent claudication: A systematic review.Vascular medicine (London, England) · 2022Pooled it
- Network Meta-Analysis Comparing the Outcomes of Treatments for Intermittent Claudication Tested in Randomized Controlled Trials.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2021Pooled it
- Pooled it
- Supervised exercise therapy versus home-based exercise therapy versus walking advice for intermittent claudication.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- Exercise for intermittent claudication.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Pooled it
- The effect of telephone health coaching and remote exercise monitoring for peripheral artery disease (TeGeCoach) on health care cost and utilization: results of a randomized controlled trial.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2024Trial
- Effects of Long-Term Home Exercise in Participants With Peripheral Artery Disease.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2023Trial
- A Novel, Individualized Exercise Program for Patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease Recovering from Bypass Surgery.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Trial
- The Role of Home-Based Exercise in the Management of Peripheral Artery Disease.Current treatment options in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Article
- Exercise-Based Rehabilitation Following Lower-Limb Revascularisation in Patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease: A Scoping Review.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- A natural experiment to determine if FitEx works: Impact of a statewide walking program.Translational behavioral medicine · 2024Article
- Benefits of Integrating Technology into Home Exercise Therapy in Patients with Lower Extremity Peripheral Artery Disease.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Relation of non-exercise walking activity with exercise performance in patients with peripheral artery disease: NEW activity for PAD.Journal of vascular nursing : official publication of the Society for Peripheral Vascular Nursing · 2023Article
- Telemedicine and Digital Health Applications in Vascular Surgery.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
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Abstract
Supervised walking exercise is an effective treatment to improve walking ability of patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD), but few exercise programs in community settings have been effective. The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of a community-based walking exercise program with training, monitoring and coaching (TMC) components to improve exercise performance and patient-reported outcomes in PAD patients. This was a randomized, controlled trial including PAD patients (n=25) who previously received peripheral endovascular therapy or presented with stable claudication. Patients randomized to the intervention group received a comprehensive community-based walking exercise program with elements of TMC over 14 weeks. Patients in the control group did not receive treatment beyond standard advice to walk. The primary outcome in the intent-to-treat (ITT) analyses was peak walking time (PWT) on a graded treadmill. Secondary outcomes included claudication onset time (COT) and patient-reported outcomes assessed via the Walking Impairment Questionnaire (WIQ). Intervention group patients (n=10) did not significantly improve PWT when compared with the control group patients (n=10) (mean ± standard error: +2.1 ± 0.7 versus 0.0 ± 0.7 min, p=0.052). Changes in COT and WIQ scores were greater for intervention patients compared with control patients (COT: +1.6 ± 0.8 versus -0.6 ± 0.7 min, p=0.045; WIQ: +18.3 ± 4.2 versus -4.6 ± 4.2%, p=0.001). This pilot using a walking program with TMC and an ITT analysis did not improve the primary outcome in PAD patients. Other walking performance and patient self-reported outcomes were improved following exercise in community settings. Further study is needed to determine whether this intervention improves outcomes in a trial employing a larger sample size.
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