Effect of preoperative respiratory prehabilitation on cardiopulmonary function in patients undergoing lung resection for non-small cell lung cancer: a randomized controlled trial.

J Cardiothorac Surg · 2026 · PMC13231665 · PMID 42010447

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

Postoperative complications In the present study, the postoperative complication rate was numerically lower in the intervention group than in the control group, although the between-group difference did not reach statistical significance.

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a favorable trendno p-value reported

Therefore, our results are best interpreted as showing a favorable trend rather than definitive evidence of complication reduction.

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