Cardiology Research and Practice

Review Article

Systematic Review of the Effect of Diet and Exercise Lifestyle Interventions in the Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease

Table 3

Impact of interventions on hospital admissions.
StudyInterventionControlRisk ratio
Murphy βˆ— Overall: 𝑃 = . 0 3
Baseline to 18 months:  
0.3 (0.6) to
0.4 (0.7)		0.4 (0.8) to
0.5 (1.0)
CV: 𝑃 = . 0 4
At 18 months:  
0.14 (0.50)0.23 (0.7)
Other: 𝑃 = . 2 2
0.24 (0.6)0.32 (0.7)
Vestfold βˆ— βˆ— 2033NS (not significant)
Ornish βˆ— βˆ— βˆ— 23440.685 (0.012–13.2), 𝑃 = . 8 1
Heller βˆ— βˆ— βˆ— βˆ— 47600.253 βˆ— βˆ— βˆ— βˆ— βˆ—
Diff -0.8% (βˆ’10.0–8.4); NS
Delaney βˆ— βˆ— βˆ— βˆ— βˆ— 76478642 𝑃 = . 9 9 8
βˆ— Mean number of admissions per patient (at 18 months).
βˆ— βˆ— 20 admissions related to chest pain without evidence of ischaemia among 11 patients in intervention group, 33 admissions among 14 patients in control group (at 2 years).
βˆ— βˆ— βˆ— Cardiac hospitalisations (at 5 years).
βˆ— βˆ— βˆ— βˆ— Patients with β‰₯1 hospital readmission (at 6 months).
βˆ— βˆ— βˆ— βˆ— βˆ— Total number of admissions (at 10 years).