Table 1.
Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of patients eligible for cardiac rehabilitation, by educational attainment.
| Variable | Overall N = 171,297 | Educational Attainment |
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| ≤ High School Diploma n = 54,269 (31.7%) | Some College n = 93,893 (54.8%) | ≥ Bachelor’s Degree n = 23,135 (13.5%) | ||
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| Demographics | ||||
| Age (years), mean ± SD | 70.4 (11.6) | 69.6 (11.3) | 70.8 (11.5) | 71.1 (12.3) |
| Female sex, n (%) | 64125 (37.4%) | 21921 (40.4%) | 34719 (37.0%) | 7485 (32.4%) |
| Race or ethnicity, n (%) | ||||
| Asian | 4565 (2.7%) | 870 (1.6%) | 2396 (2.6%) | 1299 (5.6%) |
| Black | 19987 (11.7%) | 10647 (19.6%) | 8426 (9.0%) | 914 (4.0%) |
| Hispanic | 18272 (10.7%) | 9006 (16.6%) | 7864 (8.4%) | 1402 (6.1%) |
| White | 128473 (75.0%) | 33746 (62.2%) | 75207 (80.1%) | 19520 (84.4%) |
| Household income, n (%) | ||||
| <$40,000 | 52835 (30.8%) | 27646 (50.9%) | 23389 (24.9%) | 1800 (7.8%) |
| $40,000–49,999 | 15743 (9.2%) | 6768 (12.5%) | 8331 (8.9%) | 644 (2.8%) |
| $50,000–59,999 | 16307 (9.5%) | 6073 (11.2%) | 9288 (9.9%) | 946 (4.1%) |
| $60,000–74,999 | 19926 (11.6%) | 5156 (9.5%) | 12849 (13.7%) | 1921 (8.3%) |
| $75,000–99,999 | 25618 (15.0%) | 4020 (7.4%) | 17888 (19.1%) | 3710 (16.0%) |
| ≥$100,000 | 33490 (19.6%) | 1520 (2.8%) | 18589 (19.8%) | 13381 (57.8%) |
| Unknown | 7378 (4.3%) | 3086 (5.7%) | 3559 (3.8%) | 733 (3.2%) |
| CR qualifying diagnosis, n (%) | ||||
| Myocardial Infarction | 99443 (58.1%) | 33101 (61.0%) | 54143 (57.7%) | 12199 (52.7%) |
| CABG | 23735 (13.9%) | 7374 (13.6%) | 13132 (14.0%) | 3229 (14.0%) |
| Valve repair/replacement | 32309 (18.9%) | 8195 (15.1%) | 18391 (19.6%) | 5723 (24.7%) |
| PCI/stent | 72243 (42.2%) | 23622 (43.5%) | 39501 (42.1%) | 9120 (39.4%) |
| Insurance type, n (%) | ||||
| Commercial | 40523 (23.7%) | 11112 (20.5%) | 22420 (23.9%) | 6991 (30.2%) |
| Medicare | 106115 (62.0%) | 29524 (54.4%) | 61603 (65.6%) | 14988 (64.8%) |
| Low-income | 15918 (9.3%) | 8844 (16.3%) | 6385 (6.8%) | 689 (3.0%) |
| Medicare + Medicaid | 8741 (5.1%) | 4789 (8.8%) | 3485 (3.7%) | 467 (2.0%) |
| Elixhauser Comorbidity Index, median (25th, 75th) | 7 (4, 10) | 7 (5, 10) | 7 (4, 10) | 6 (4, 9) |
| Follow-up time (months), median (25th, 75th) | 29.6 (18.4, 43.4) | 28.4 (16.5, 42.3) | 30.1 (19.1, 43.8) | 30.7 (20.9, 44.1) |
CABG, coronary artery bypass graft; CR, cardiac rehabilitation; PCI, percutaneous coronary intervention.