Background Economic evaluation is an important tool in the evaluation of competing
healthcare interventions. Little is known about the economic benefits of different cardiac …

Background Little is known about physical activity levels in patients with coronary artery
disease (CAD) who are not engaged in cardiac rehabilitation. We explored the trajectory of …

BACKGROUND: Secondary prevention through cardiac rehabilitation (CR) has been
recommended for most patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). Although generally …

BACKGROUND: The authors evaluated the incremental efficacy of telephone counselling
by a nurse in addition to physician advice and nicotine replacement therapy in helping …

Social relationships, or the lack thereof, constitute a major psychosocial risk factor for health,
rivaling the effect of well-established traditional cardiac risk factors. 2 For example, the …

Hospitals, YM-YWCAs, regional health units, and university physical education and athletics
departments (n= 423) were surveyed to determine the number and locations of existing …

TUBERCULOSIS of the vascular system is not uncommon, and a considerable literature
exists about the close association between miliary tuberculosis and tuberculosis of the blood …

… THE PHYSICAL WELFARE OF THE DIONNE QUINTUPLETS* By ALLAN Roy DAFOE, OBE…
Dafoe. The guardians, who meet once a month, have full control of all business affairs and …

Many patients who could be helped by thy-roid therapy are not recognized as hypo-thyroid.
Standard textbooks subdivide hypothyroidism into myxcedema and cretinism, and refer to …

The vocational status of a cardiac patient has a major effect on self-worth, cardiac risk factors,
participation in cardiac rehabilitation, and the subsequent recovery of the patient and the …