Preoperative characteristucs of patients with improved quality of life one year fter coronary artery bypass surgery

South African Journal of Physiotherapy

 
 
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Title Preoperative characteristucs of patients with improved quality of life one year fter coronary artery bypass surgery
 
Creator Eales, C. J. Noakes, T. D. Stewart, A. V.
 
Subject — quality of life; coronary artery bypass surgery; admission characteristics; sporting activities; height; weight
Description A study was conducted to determine the outcome of Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery in terms of patients’ improved quality of life one year after the intervention. Quality of life was assessed in terms of return to work, absence of angina and increased activity. The analysis of the variables identified on admission between two groups (those who had an improved quality of life and those who did not have an improved quality of life) are presented. Patients with improved quality of life were married (p=0.02), men (p=0.01), with an income R50,000 p/a (p=0.03), reported a normal sex-life prior to hospital admission (p=0.04), were taller (p=0.01), spent more hours at school participating in sporting activities (p=0.04) and had carried on with sport for more years prior to the surgery (p=0.01). There were no significant differences in weight or body mass index between the two groups.
 
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Date 2003-02-17
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
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Identifier 10.4102/sajp.v59i2.204
 
Source South African Journal of Physiotherapy; Vol 59, No 2 (2003); 29-33 2410-8219 0379-6175
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2003 C. J. Eales, T. D. Noakes, A. V. Stewart https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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