Exercise Trajectories of Women from Entry to a 6-Month Cardiac Rehabilitation Program to One Year after Discharge

Table 3

Descriptive statistics and chi-square comparisons by class.

Patient characteristics	Inactive; relapsers	Moderately active relapsers	χ ^2
	Class 1	Class 2
Demographics
Age
<65 yrs	74.8	25.2
≥65 years	85.9	14.1	3.84
Education
<Grade 12	82.4	17.6
≥Grade 12	77.2	22.8	.83
Marital status
Other	79.7	20.3
Married/common-law	79.8	20.2	.05
Employed
Not employed	84.1	15.9
Employed	67.3	32.7	6.77*
Living arrangement
Alone	83.0	17.0
With others	78.7	21.3	.41
Clinical
Diagnosis-MI
No	82.9	17.1
Yes	63.6	36.4	6.39*
NonSmoker
No	79.4	20.6
Yes	80.3	19.7	.02
Comorbidities
0	61.5	38.5
≥1	81.1	18.9	2.87

Note. ^∗𝑃<.01; 𝜒²: chi-square; MI: acute myocardial infarction. All values are in percentages.