Key result
Post-MI cardiac rehabilitation sees ~58% work resumption alongside low four-year cardiac mortality.
Population
141 patients who completed a cardiac rehabilitation programme after a recent myocardial infarction.
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
four years
Authors
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Discharge exercise tolerance may guide return-to-work counseling after post-MI rehabilitation; leaves open causal effects of LV function on survival.
Cohort (n=141)
p-value: p=<0.02
In patients completing cardiac rehabilitation after a recent myocardial infarction, return to work is primarily predicted by exercise tolerance at discharge, while long-term survival is predicted by markers of left ventricular dysfunction.
Baardman et al. (1988) conducted a cohort in Recent myocardial infarction (n=141). Cardiac rehabilitation was evaluated on Work resumption and four-year cardiac mortality (p=<0.02). Following cardiac rehabilitation for a recent myocardial infarction, 58% of previously employed patients resumed work, and four-year cardiac mortality was 8.5%.
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