Table 2.

Prevalence of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction before and after cardiac rehabilitation ^*

	Diastolic dysfunction				P value
	Normal	Grade I	Grade II	Grade III
CR Group					0.065**
Before	15 (20.55)	51 (69.86)	5 (6.85)	2 (2.74)
After	22 (30.14)	45 (61.63)	4 (5.48)	2 (2.74)
Control Group					0.370**
Before	32 (43.84)	38 (52.05)	2 (2.74)	1 (1.37)
After	33 (45.21)	37 (50.68)	2 (2.74)	1 (1.37)
CR Vs. Control					0.043***

^*Data are presented as n (%)

^**P value was computed using the McNemar-Bowker test

^***P value was computed using the chi-squared test