Lasting impact on health-related quality of life after a first myocardial infarction

Quality of Life in a mixed ethnic population after myocardial infarction

“…The findings demonstrate that on all domains of health-related quality of life as assessed by the SF-36, significant improvement occurs in South Asian and white patients following MI over time, a finding consistent with previous investigations of white patients only [32,33]. However, on most SF-36 domains (PF, RP, RE, SF, MH and BP) a significant difference was observed between groups in favour of the white group compared to the South Asian group.…”

Evaluating the Effect of Cardiac Rehabilitation Care Plan on Quality of Life of Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

“…In this regard, Cugila and Cooper reported that regular exercises reduced the blood pressure and balanced the weight; also, 12-week implementation of physical activities such as walking with moderate intensity in the home rehabilitation program had positive impact on cardiovascular risk factors (hyperlipidemia) [40]. Patients who received the rehabilitation program compared to the ones who did not receive it returned to work faster and showed signs of improvement in the quality of life and mental functioning [41]. Studies have shown that cardiac rehabilitation decreases mortality up to 34% and cardiac diseases recurrence up to 29% [13].…”

Association Between the Use of 4 Recommended Drug Categories and Patient Perceptions of Health Status Following an ACS Event

“…3 Studies of patients with myocardial infarction have measured the effect of illness and interventions on HRQL. [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] Many of these studies are conducted in the context of controlled clinical trials assessing the effectiveness of an intervention. In health services research, in which the focus of measurement is typically the process of care, ongoing measurement of patient-reported health status provides a way to move from measuring process outcomes to improving care for groups and individual patients.…”

“…The influence of the residual effects of acute myocardial ischemic events on patients' functional and health status has been the focus of many research studies over the past several decades. [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] These studies have identified many patient, disease, and treatment characteristics associated with health status or HRQOL, including the type of ACS event. The present analysis was not able to control for the type of ACS event because of inconsistent documentation in the ACS registry, the source of data for this project.…”