Enhancing Recovery in Coronary Heart Disease (ENRICHD) Patients

Launched by NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE (NHLBI) · Oct 27, 1999

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BACKGROUND:

As medical treatments for coronary heart disease have become more sophisticated, they have also become more costly. Evidence concerning the effects of medical and rehabilitative therapies on post-myocardial infarction patients' quality of life, including return to work and to normal levels of functioning, has been mixed. At the same time. recent data suggest that psychosocial factors, such as social isolation and depression, are important predictors of morbidity and mortality in coronary heart disease patients. These studies suggest that interventions which provide psychologica...

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Eligibility criteria

• • Men and women coronary heart disease/myocardial infarction patients, hospitalized for enzyme-documented MI and who are depressed and/or have low social support. Patients must be enrolled with 28 days of the index MI.

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