Psychological treatments in cardiac rehabilitation
Journal of Psychosomatic ResearchPublished 1 April 2000
Wolfgang Linden
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The aggregated findings support the use of psychosocial interventions and they also help to explain critical differences in outcome in that studies which fail to reduce distress also fail to lead to reduced mortality or reduced event recurrence.
Abstract
Gender differences in outcome and recent trends in cardiology are discussed because both have distinct consequences for the effective delivery of psychological services to cardiac patients.
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