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NESSIE – NIHR Evidence Synthesis Scotland InitiativE

NESSIE – NIHR Evidence Synthesis Scotland InitiativE

Producing high quality evidence syntheses relevant to health care, public health and social care.

Update on Exercise for people with existing vascular disease as a tool for secondary prevention

We are delighted to bring you some “hot off the press” information on one of our current reviews.

This year some of the NESSIE team have been working on a systematic review looking at the effectiveness of exercise for preventing further vascular disease. We were also interested in the impact of exercise on quality of life for those living with vascular conditions such as Stroke, Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA), Ischaemic Heart Disease, Heart Failure and Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD).

You can find out more information on what our review aimed to do in our first blog in this series here or access our review protocol here.

In March 2024 we published our second blog, giving an update on how the review was progressing and how we involved clinical staff in our decision-making. Six months later, we are delighted to let you know that the review is in the final stages and we hope to be able to share our results in a new publication soon. So, what have we been doing for the past six months?

  • We have screened 34,600 titles and abstracts
  • We have read 4156 articles
  • We have included 556 studies in our systematic review
  • 222 of these studies were still ongoing and 54 didn’t include enough information that we could use
  • That left 280 studies, from which we have extracted information

We also wanted to make sure that people who have lived experience of vascular conditions or worked for relevant organisations such as charities also shaped the review. This type of activity is called Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) – you can find more information on how NESSIE is approaching this here. For this review we recruited four people with lived experiences and three people working for charities or the NHS. Our PPIE group have helped us to:

  1. Make decisions about different types of exercises such as Yoga or Tai Chi
  2. Plan what information we would focus on for different kinds of publications
  3. Think about how we should disseminate the results of the review

We will be sharing information about our new publication on social media so why not take this opportunity to follow us to find out more:

 

 

Blog by Dr Katie Thomson

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