Why the study?
Do lifestyle changes provide similar medical and psychosocial benefits in CHD patients with LVEF ≤40% compared to those with LVEF >40%?
Do lifestyle changes provide similar medical and psychosocial benefits in CHD patients with LVEF ≤40% compared to those with LVEF >40%?
Lifestyle modifications offer comparable medical and psychosocial benefits to CHD patients regardless of whether their LVEF is ≤40% or >40%.
Similar benefits from lifestyle changes may extend across LVEF strata in CHD; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
CHD patients at risk for heart failure with an LVEF<or=40%, can make changes in lifestyle to achieve similar medical and psychosocial benefit to patients with an LVEF>40%.
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Pischke et al. (2007) studied this question.