Cardiac Rehabilitation
A Workbook for use with Group Programmes
Chapter One
Multidisciplinary Cardiac Rehabilitation
This introductory chapter will briefly describe the evidence for the use of cardiac
rehabilitation (CR) in the management of coronary heart disease and how
this evidence has influenced the shift from exercise-only programmes to the
comprehensive multidisciplinary CR programmes that are prominent in the
UK today.
Background
By 2005 coronary heart disease (CHD) had become the leading cause of death
in the UK, killing more than 110,000 people each year in England alone
(Department of Health, 2005). Furthermore, approximately 275,000 people
experienced a myocardial infarction (MI), or heart attack, each year, with a
further 1.4 million people suffering from angina (Department of Health, 2005).
Currently coronary heart disease accounts for approximately one in five deaths
in men and one in six deaths in women (British Heart Foundation, 2008). The
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