Association between attending exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation and cardiovascular risk factors at one-year post myocardial infarction.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Randomized trials confirm the benefits of exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation on cardiovascular risk factors. Whether exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation provides the same favourable effects in real-life cardiac rehabilitation settings, in the modern era of myocardial infarction treatment, is less well known. We examined the association between attending exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation and improvements in cardiovascular risk factors at one-year post myocardial infarction in patients included in the Swedish heart disease registry, SWEDEHEART. METHODS:In this retrospective registry-based cohort study, we included 19 136 patients post myocardial infarction (75% men, 62.8±8.7 years) who were registered in SWEDEHEART between 2011 and 2013. The association between attending

SUBMITTER: Sjolin I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7213725 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature