Journal article
Prediction of Long-Term Prognosis in 12 169 Men Referred for Cardiac Rehabilitation
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Predicting the risk of cardiac and all-cause death in patients with established coronary heart disease is important in counseling the individual and designing risk-stratified rehabilitation and secondary prevention programs. Cox proportional hazards and Kaplan-Meier survival curves were thus completed on initial assessment data obtained from patients referred to an outpatient cardiac rehabilitation center.
METHODS AND RESULTS: A …
Authors
Kavanagh T; Mertens DJ; Hamm LF; Beyene J; Kennedy J; Corey P; Shephard RJ
Journal
Circulation, Vol. 106, No. 6, pp. 666–671
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer
Publication Date
August 6, 2002
DOI
10.1161/01.cir.0000024413.15949.ed
ISSN
0009-7322