Clinical Characteristics and Course of Patients Entering Cardiac Rehabilitation with Chronic Kidney Disease: Data from the Italian Survey on Cardiac Rehabilitation

Table 1

Demographics characteristics of the study population (𝑛, %).

	CKD (𝑛=200)	Non-CKD (𝑛=2081)	𝑃 value
Age (years) (mean ± SD)	73.6 ± 9.9	66.3 ± 11.7	<0.0001
Gender (male)	141 (70.5)	1536 (73.8)	0.31
Cardiovascular risk factors^1
0–2 (low)	57 (28.5)	854 (41.0)	0.0003
3–5 (medium)	113 (56.5)	1046 (50.3)
>5 (high)	30 (15.0)	181 (8.7)

1Smoking, family history of early coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, hypercholesterolemia, body mass index >27, diabetes, sedentary lifestyle, and early menopause.