Regular exercise is highly beneficial for all patients with cardiovascular disease regardless of age a new study has said adding that patients who benefited most from cardiac rehabilitation were those who started out with the greatest physical impairment. Ageing is associated with several factors such as increased inflammation or oxidative stress that predispose people to cardiovascular diseases. As a result elderly patients are usually less fit than their younger counterparts and deconditioning is accelerated once cardiovascular disease is established explained lead investigator Gaelle Deley from University of Burgundy Franche-Comt in France. However there is few data available about the impact
