Between-group and within-group comparisons of patients with coronary heart disease of hospital-based and home-based cardiac rehabilitation on 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and lipid profile at baseline and after completion of a cardiac rehabilitation programme
| Hospital (n = 40) | Home (n = 41) | Intergroup Baseline* | Hospital Baseline - After† | Home Baseline - After† | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| p Value | p Value | p Value | |||
| DBP, diastolic blood pressure; HDL-C, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; MAP, mean arterial pressure; SBP, systolic blood pressure. | |||||
| *Unpaired Student’s t or Mann–Whitney U tests; †paired Student’s t or Wilcoxon signed rank test. | |||||
| 24-h mean SBP (mm Hg)baseline | 122 (14) | 125 (14) | 0.31 | ||
| 24-h mean SBP after | 118 (13) | 122 (14) | 0.03 | 0.013 | |
| 24-h mean DBP (mm Hg)baseline | 72 (9) | 74 (10) | 0.42 | ||
| 24-h mean DBPafter | 70 (7) | 72 (9) | 0.07 | 0.16 | |
| 24-h mean MAP (mm Hg)baseline | 88 (10) | 92 (11) | 0.18 | ||
| 24-h mean MAPafter | 86 (8) | 89 (10) | 0.08 | 0.01 | |
| Total cholesterol (mmol/l)baseline | 4.1 (0.8) | 3.9 (0.9) | 0.35 | ||
| Total cholesterolafter | 3.6 (0.7) | 3.8 (0.7) | 0.001 | 0.60 | |
| HDL-C (mmol/l)baseline | 1.08 (0.3) | 1.19 (0.5) | 0.23 | ||
| HDL-Cafter | 1.28 (0.3) | 1.25 (0.3) | <0.001 | 0.50 | |