Why the study?
Do female patients with coronary artery disease have similar compliance and physiological responses to supervised exercise rehabilitation compared to male patients?
Population
264 patients (227 male, 37 female) with coronary artery disease
Comparison
Supervised exercise rehabilitation programme vs Supervised exercise rehabilitation programme
Design
Cohort
Authors
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Women with CAD may achieve similar exercise gains despite lower attendance; hypothesis-generating for adherence interventions in observational data.
Do female patients with coronary artery disease have similar compliance and physiological responses to supervised exercise rehabilitation compared to male patients?
Female patients with coronary artery disease benefit equally from exercise rehabilitation in terms of exercise capacity, despite having poorer compliance than male patients.
O’Callaghan et al. (1984) studied this question.
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