Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation in patients with coronary heart disease: Meta-analysis outcomes revisited

Future Cardiology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 729-751

  Oldridge, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac rehabilitation; coronary heart disease; cost effectiveness; exercise training; hospital admissions; meta analysis; mortality; outcomes; reinfarction; risk factor management

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

COMORBIDITY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ETHNIC GROUP; EXERCISE; FATALITY; GENDER; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEART REHABILITATION; HEART REINFARCTION; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MEDICAL STAFF; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MINORITY GROUP; MORTALITY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EXERCISE THERAPY; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LIPIDS; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84866905481     PISSN: 14796678     EISSN: 17448298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fca.12.34     Document Type: Review

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