Table 4.

Health service resource use 0–12 months

	Exercise intervention			Control			P-valuea
	Number of patients	Mean	SD	Number of patients	Mean	SD
Hospital admissions all causes (nights)	16b	3.07	11.72	20	2.38	7.75	0.2
Hospital admissions cardiac causes (nights)	11	1.15	6.28	11	1.38	5.84	0.1
Day case admissions	13	0.27	0.70	16	0.41	1.09	0.2
Out-patient visits	54	1.89	2.02	38	1.33	1.85	0.3
Specialist heart failure nurse consultations	61	2.24	1.98	57	2.63	2.60	0.4
Visits to general practitioner	31	1.89	3.04	30	1.65	2.49	0.7
Home visits from general practitioner	3	0.16	0.99	4	0.22	0.98	0.8
Practice nurse consultations	24	1.12	2.58	20	0.99	1.92	0.6

Overall, only 19% of participants were admitted for any cause, and 12% for a cardiac cause.

^aAdjusted for age, sex, NYHA class, centre of recruitment, presence or absence of AF, with HADS, and blood pressure at baseline added stepwise.

^bSeventy-three nights from 1 patient admitted with a CVA.