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. 2021 Sep 16;19(3):180–194. doi: 10.1038/s41569-021-00611-7

Fig. 2. Cardiac rehabilitation and all-cause mortality in patients with coronary heart disease: 1970–2020.

Fig. 2

Meta-regression analysis of the treatment effect of cardiac rehabilitation on all-cause mortality over time in patients with coronary heart disease. The area of each data point is inversely related to the standard error of log relative risk (RR). The absence of an improvement in the effect of cardiac rehabilitation on all-cause mortality over the past 2–3 decades might reflect the evolution of usual care and the introduction of life-saving therapies, including thrombolysis and secondary prevention drugs.