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What is the prevalence and trajectory of symptoms in older and middle-aged adults during the first 6 weeks after coronary artery bypass surgery?
What is the prevalence and trajectory of symptoms in older and middle-aged adults during the first 6 weeks after coronary artery bypass surgery?
Following coronary artery bypass surgery, patients experience a shift in symptom burden over 6 weeks, with sleep problems becoming more frequent while overall symptom numbers decrease.
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Symptom burden declines post-CABG yet edema, fatigue, and sleep issues persist; hypothesis-generating for targeted management trials.
Nancy S. Redeker (1993) studied this question.
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