2026 ESC Guidelines on cardiac rehabilitation Developed by the task force on cardiac rehabilitation of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
Endorsed by the European Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ESPRM) and World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA)

Maria Bäck

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Sahlgrenska University Hospital Gothenburg , Sweden

Matthias Wilhelm

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Bern University Hospital, Inselspital Bern , Switzerland

Thimo Marcin

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Felipe V C Machado

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Hasselt University Hasselt , Belgium

Anna Sandberg

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Sahlgrenska University Hospital Gothenburg , Sweden

Sergio Buccheri

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Almudena Castro Conde

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Michał Czapla

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Wroclaw Medical University Wroclaw , Poland

Salvatore De Rosa

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Irene Gibson

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Anežka Gombošová

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Oleksii Korzh

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Kharkiv National Medical University Kharkiv , Ukraine

Maria Teresa La Rovere

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ICS Maugeri - IRCCS Pavia Pavia , Italy

Emanuela Teresina Locati

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IRCCS San Donato Polyclinic Milan , Italy

Josep Masip

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Tone Merete Norekvål

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Giuseppina Novo

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Roberto F E Pedretti

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Anne Grete Semb

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Diakonhjemmet Hospital Oslo , Norway

Jolanta M Siller-Matula

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Medical University of Vienna Vienna , Austria

Chantal F Ski

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Queens University Belfast Belfast , United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland

Simon H Sündermann

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German Heart Centre Berlin Berlin , Germany

Rod S Taylor

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University of Glasgow Glasgow , United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland

Rogier J A Veltrop

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ESC Patient Forum Maastricht , Netherlands (The)

Dominique Hansen

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Donna Fitzsimons

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John William McEvoy

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Ana Abreu

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Marianna Adamo

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Stamatis Adamopoulos

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Suleman Aktaa

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Manuel Antunes

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Folkert W Asselbergs

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Giuseppe Boriani

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Margarita Brida

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Robert A Byrne

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Wendy Davis

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Erin Ferranti

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Estelle Gandjbakhch

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Luigina Guasti

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Hajar Habibi

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Martin Halle

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Henner Hanssen

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Bettina Heidecker

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Anja Hennemuth

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Borja Ibanez

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Marie Christine Iliou

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Stefan James

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Jennifer Jones

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Zalika Klemenc-Ketiš

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Evangelia Kouidi

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Konstanin A Krychtiuk

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Ulf Landmesser

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Gregory Y H Lip

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Fabio Mangiacapra

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Lena Mathews

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Borislava Mihaylova

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Inge Moelgaard

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Sofia Monteiro

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Philip Moons

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Lis Neubeck

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Maria Nikolaou

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Erik M G Olsson

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Eva Prescott

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Bianca Rocca

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Xavier Rossello

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Anna Sannino

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Oliver Schlager

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Françoise Steinbach

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Marta Supervia

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Felix C Tanner

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Katja Zeppenfeld

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Leonard Simoni

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Mohammed El Amine Bouzid

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Rostam Shamoyan

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Jeanette Strametz-Juranek

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Rahima Gabulova

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Guido Claessen

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Belma Pojskic

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Elena Dimitrova

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Jure Samardzic

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Ioannis Michaloliakos

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Vladimir Tuka

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Ann Dorthe

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Ghada Selim

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Eduard Tsvetkov

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Jari Antero Laukkanen

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Marie-Christine Iliou

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Zurab Klimiashvili

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Bernhard Schwaab

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Maria Marketou

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Eszter Szabados

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Karl Kristjansson

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Angie S Brown

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Barak Zafrir

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Carmine Riccio

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Gulsim Aimakova

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Xhevdet Krasniqi

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SaamaI Abilova

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Iveta Mintale

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Georges Saade

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Ahmed Gabroun

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Raimondas Kubilius

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Laurent Visser

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Mark Abela

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Eleonora Vataman

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Harel M C Kemps

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Savetka Paljoskovska Jordanova

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Anne Kask

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Renata Główczyńska

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Pedro Dinis Vieira Santos Rio

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Bogdan Caloian

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Umberto Maria Stefanelli

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Marta Jakubova

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Borut Jug

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Patricia Palau Sampio

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Mattias Ekstrom

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Matthias Hermann

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Helmi Ben Salem

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Emre Aslanger

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Elena Nesukay

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Aynsley Cowie

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Guzal Mullabayeva

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