Association of Cardiac Rehabilitation With All-Cause Mortality Among Patients With Cardiovascular Disease in the Netherlands

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  Figure 1.. Cardiac Rehabilitation (CR) Participation Rates Across Strata of Patient and Disease Characteristics The dashed line represents the average CR participation rate (31.3%) of the analytic cohort (N = 83 687). AP indicates angina pectoris; CABG, coronary artery bypass grafting; NSTEMI, non–ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction; PCI, percutaneous coronary intervention; and STEMI, ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction.

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  Figure 2.. Kaplan-Meier Curves of All-Cause Mortality During Follow-up Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) participation was associated with statistically significantly better event-free survival compared with nonparticipation (log-rank test comparing curves, P < .001 for overall survival).

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  Figure 3.. Subgroup-Specific Adjusted Hazard Ratios (HR) for All-Cause Mortality Risk Among Patients With Cardiovascular Disease Eligible to Enroll in a Cardiac Rehabilitation (CR) Program Data are presented on a logarithmic scale. A 32% lower risk of all-cause mortality was found for the total cohort, and adjusted HRs between 0.38 (95% CI, 0.27-0.53) and 0.89 (95% CI, 0.55-1.46) were observed across subgroups. Participation in CR is favored for all subgroups because risk estimates were all less than 1. However, a nonstatistically significant risk reduction was observed for patients with dementia likely because of the small sample size, contributing to a wide 95% CI. AP indicates angina pectoris; CABG, coronary artery bypass grafting; NSTEMI, non–ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction; PCI, percutaneous coronary intervention; and STEMI, non–ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction.