Attendance at cardiac rehabilitation is associated with lower all-cause mortality after 14 years of follow-up

Heart

Volumn 99, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 620-625

  Beauchamp, Alison ^a,b   Worcester, Marian ^a,c   Ng, Andrew ^a,c   Murphy, Barbara ^a,c   Tatoulis, James ^c   Grigg, Leeanne ^c   Newman, Robert ^c   Goble, Alan ^a  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL DEATH INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART REHABILITATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PATIENT ATTENDANCE; PATIENT MONITORING; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING HABIT;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; AUSTRALIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84876115835     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2012-303022     Document Type: Article

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