title: [Return to work in patients with heart disease after cardiac rehabilitation].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Cardiac rehabilitation is a secondary prevention strategy which it includes a set of activities that would assure cardiac patients a place as normal as it could be into the society, being also essential for going back to work, by improving their quality of life and reducing costs for institutions.
  
  
  METHODS
  A non-randomized clinical study was conducted at the "Siglo XXI" Cardiology Hospital; We included patients with the diagnosis of ischemic heart disease and/or valve disease, the response variables were: percentage of patients going back to work and disability time upon return to duty. Cardiac rehabilitation program was applied for 1 month and followed up at 2 months and 1 year.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Two groups were formed, the ones who received cardiac rehabilitation, N = 40 (experimental group) against a control group, N = 25. The percentage of patients going back to work with a cardiac rehabilitation was 75 % versus 60 % of the group did not receive cardiac rehabilitation, p = 0.2, with a mean of 68 days of disability in the experimental group against 128 in the control group, p = 0.001.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The experimental group showed a higher percentage of patients who returned to work, working time reentry (in days) was lower compared to the control group.
authors.affiliation: Medicina del trabajo, Hospital General de Zona No. 32 Villacoapa, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Ciudad de México, México. rojanodavid@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Valeria
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Huichan-Muñoz
authors.forename: Samuel
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Justiniano-Cordero
authors.forename: José Luis
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Solís-Hernández
authors.forename: Gabriela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-Ábrego
authors.forename: Edgar
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Millán-Hernández
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rojano-Mejía
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000072038:Cardiac Rehabilitation; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D062707:Return to Work / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: Heart diseases; Quality of life; Return to work