Contemporary trends in cardiac rehabilitation in Germany: patient characteristics, drug treatment, and risk-factor management from 2000 to 2005
Population
117,983 inpatients in cardiac rehabilitation in Germany from 2000 to 2005
Design
Cross-sectional
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Discussion
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Implication
May necessitate cardiac rehab adaptations for older, higher-BMI entrants; leaves open outcome benefits of improved risk factor control.
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Population
117,983 inpatients in cardiac rehabilitation in Germany from 2000 to 2005
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Intervention
Inpatient cardiac rehabilitation (temporal trends from 2000 to 2005)
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Outcome
Temporal trends in patient characteristics, drug prescriptions, and risk-factor management (blood pressure, lipids, glucose)surrogate
Between 2000 and 2005 in Germany, patients entering cardiac rehabilitation were older and had higher BMI, but demonstrated improved baseline risk factor control and higher rates of evidence-based medical therapy.
Cite This Study
Bestehorn et al. (2008) studied this question.