Million Hearts: Improving Health and Employment Outcomes for Employees with Heart Disease: The Value of Cardiac Rehabilitation

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
• Description:
  Heart disease death rates among working-age adults (25 to 64 years) have not improved since 2011 and have increased among adults aged 55 to 64. Meanwhile, workers aged 65 or older, who are at greatest risk of heart disease, make up the fastest growing segment of the U.S. workforce. Employees are better able to do their work and remain employed when workplace policies and practices support their efforts to manage chronic conditions like heart disease.
  
  Cardiac Rehabilitation (CR) is a comprehensive lifestyle change intervention that includes supervised physical activity, patient education, risk factor management, and psychosocial services. CR is commonly delivered in an outpatient hospital setting, but can also be delivered remotely. There is strong and consistent evidence that patients who complete CR have better exercise capacity, fewer cardiac events and hospital readmissions, lower healthcare costs, and less risk of premature death. Evidence also shows CR may improve patients’ ability to return to work and stay employed
  
  
• Subjects:
  Cardiac Rehabilitation Chronic Disease Heart Diseases Stroke
• Keywords:
  2025 CDC Chronic Disease Prevention Resource Guide Community Engagement Strategies Documents Heart Disease And Stroke (Chronic Health Topic)
• Series:
  Million Hearts
• DOI:
  https://www.doi.org/10.15620/cdc/251814
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Handout / Flyer
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• CIO:
  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
• Topic:
  Diseases & Conditions
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  2 pdf pages
• Collection(s):
  Chronic Diseases and Conditions
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
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