Cardiac Rehabilitation Is Associated With Improved Long-Term Outcomes After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although cardiac rehabilitation (CR) has proven to have short- and mid-term benefit in treatment of coronary artery disease, its long-term benefit in patients who have undergone coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is less certain. Our objective was to examine the late outcomes of patients who attended CR within the first year after CABG.

Methods

Adult CABG patients referred to Toronto Rehabilitation Institute (CR group: were referred and attended at least 1 session; No-CR group: were referred but did not attend) between January 1996 and September 2008 were identified through linkages with clinical and provincial administrative databases for comorbidities and outcome ascertainment. The primary outcome was a composite of all-cause mortality, acute myocardial infa

SUBMITTER: Karkhanis R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7893191 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature