Home-based cardiac rehabilitation is an attractive alternative to no cardiac rehabilitation for elderly patients with coronary heart disease: Results from a randomised clinical trial

BMJ Open

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Oerkild, Bodil ^a   Frederiksen, Marianne ^a   Hansen, Jorgen Fischer ^a   Prescott, Eva ^a  

^a BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; CHOLESTEROL;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY COMPOSITION; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART REHABILITATION; HOME REHABILITATION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MORTALITY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING CESSATION; WALKING;

EID: 84873882547     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2012-001820     Document Type: Article

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