title: [The effect of combined step-by-step rehabilitation on work capacity of patients who had myocardial infarction (a USSR-East Germany cooperative study)].
abstract: The effect of combined rehabilitation on the recovery of working capacity was studied in 304 post-infarction patients in Moscow and 294 in Berlin. All the patients were male and below 65 years of age. Combined stepwise rehabilitation promoted the recovery and maintenance of working capacity in myocardial infarction survivors. A number of factors, such as middle and old age, occupations involving moderate and hard physical work, aggravated course of myocardial infarction, and first-class or fourth-class ECG changes by the Minnesota Code were shown to have negative effects on working capacity.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005859:Germany, East; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D013997:Time Factors; D014586:USSR; D014938:Work Capacity Evaluation
vernacular_title: Vliianie kompleksnoĭ poétapnoĭ reabilitatsii na trudosposobnost' bol'nykh, perenesshikh infarkt miokarda (kooperativnoe issledovanie SSSR i GDR).