Two-year results of a controlled study of residential rehabilitation for patients treated with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. A randomized study of a multifactorial programme

Abstract

This rehabilitation programme influenced important lifestyle behaviour and reduced some, but not all, important risk factors

A randomised controlled trial of cardiac rehabilitation after revascularisation

“…Results after 1 year showed that the intervention patients as compared to the controls, showed few effects on quality of life. The same investigators reported in 1999 [17] on 151 post percutaneous coronary intervention patients who were randomised to usual care or a cardiac rehabilitation program comparable to our Fit-Plus approach. After a follow-up of 2 years the groups did not differ in quality of life.…”

Multifactorial Lifestyle Interventions in the Primary and Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus—A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials

“…Patients with manifest coronary artery disease were recruited after having experienced a recent acute myocardial infarction [16,32,37], after percutaneous coronary intervention [21], after coronary artery surgery [28], after any of these events [33,38,44,49], or more generally if their diagnosis was proven diagnostically [10,23,25,30,40,46]. Nine studies were done in Europe [11,15,19,24,32,33,38,44,47], seven in the USA [10,13,14,17,31,39,41], two in Canada [46], one in India [23], Hong Kong [48], South Korea [20], Australia [28], Thailand [45], and Japan [35], respectively (Table 1). Sixteen studies were published between 2003 and 2008, and eight were published from 1982 to 2001.…”

Psychosocial Working Environment and Risk of Adverse Cardiac Events in Patients Treated for Coronary Heart Disease

“…This implies that focus on rehabilitation and reintegration into the workforce becomes increasingly important. Previous studies have described that around 60-80 % of the patients in the working age return to work after coronary heart disease [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12].…”