Cardiac rehabilitation completion is associated with reduced mortality in patients with diabetes and coronary artery disease

Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) reduces the risks of mortality and hospitalisation in patients with coronary artery disease and without diabetes. It is unknown whether patients with diabetes obtain the same benefits from CR.We retrospectively examined patients referred to a 12 week CR programme between 1996 and 2010. Associations between CR completion vs non-completion and death, hospitalisation rate and cardiac hospitalisation rate were assessed by...