Key result
Early post-MI cortisol levels differentiate adherent from non-adherent patients in cardiac rehabilitation.
Why the study?
Early indicators that differentiate adherence from non-adherence to cardiac rehabilitation after myocardial infarction are not well established.
Do early cortisol levels following admission for MI predict adherence to a cardiac rehabilitation programme?
Do early cortisol levels following admission for MI predict adherence to a cardiac rehabilitation programme?
Early cortisol levels following admission for MI may serve as an indicator of non-adherence to cardiac rehabilitation programs.
Early post-MI cortisol differences may predict adherence; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before any clinical use.
Of 44 patients enrolled in a study to examine rehabilitation efficacy from myocardial infarction (MI), seven experimental subjects did not adhere to the rehabilitation programme. Serendipitous differences in early cortisol levels following admission for MI differentiated adherent from non-adherent subjects at six to 12 weeks post-MI.
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Richard Fielding (1989) studied this question. Early cortisol levels following admission for myocardial infarction differentiated the 37 adherent from 7 non-adherent patients in a cardiac rehabilitation program at 6 to 12 weeks post-MI.
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