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

Table 2

Previous interventions and comorbidities (𝑛, %).

	CKD (𝑛=200)	Non-CKD (𝑛=2081)	𝑃 value
Previous myocardial infarction	77 (38.5)	426 (20.5)	<0.0001
Previous percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty	37 (18.5)	188 (9.0)	<0.0001
Previous cardiac surgery	33 (16.5)	217 (10.4)	0.008
Heart failure	69 (24.2)	131 (6.6)	<0.0001
Carotid arteries atherosclerosis^1	20 (10.0)	140 (6.7)	0.08
Peripheral artery disease^2	25 (12.5)	126 (6.0)	0.0005
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	52 (26.0)	246 (11.8)	<0.0001
Respiratory insufficiency	19 (9.5)	93 (4.5)	0.002
Hepatic disease	11 (5.5)	52 (2.5)	0.01
Stroke	12 (6.0)	71 (3.4)	0.06
Cognitive impairment	21 (10.5)	43 (2.1)	<0.0001
Diabetes	97 (48.5)	378 (18.2)	<0.0001
Orthopedic/joints/immune-related disease	29 (14.5)	178 (8.5)	0.005

1Stenosis >70% or previous revascularization; ²Fontaine stage >1 or previous revascularization.