Quality of life following cardiac rehabilitation in cardiac surgery patients

Table 1 Baseline characteristics of participating patients

	CR	NCR	Sig. (p =)
Patient demographics
Number of participants: (M/F)	107 (69/41)	111 (65/46)	0.526
Age years: mean (SD)	69.01 (11.1)	68.62 (11.0)	0.799
BMI (SD)	29.83 (6.15)	30.10 (6.5)	0.753
Past medical history of:
T2 diabetes (n)	82	85	0.992
Hypertension	88	93	0.957
CHF	60	60	0.764
Smoking	91	100	0.258
NYHA class (SD)	1.97 (0.9)	1.93 (0.9)	0.743
Procedure type^a
CAG	44	46	0.962
Aortic valve	56	57	0.883
Mitral valve	17	20	0.675
Percutaneous/TAVI	5	6	0.805
Hospital readmission (all cause)	27	26	0.755

CR = cardiac rehabilitation, NCR = non-cardiac rehabilitation, M/F = male/female, SD = standard deviation (n) = number, CHF = congestive heart failure, NYHA = New York Heart Association Scale (Appendix 3)
^aNB some patients underwent more than one procedure type

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