Why Do So Many Heart Attack Patients Never Go to Cardiac Rehab?

Clinician listening to an older man's chest with a stethoscope during a follow-up visit

There’s a treatment recommended after a heart attack that improves fitness, lowers cardiovascular risk, and helps people recover physically and psychologically. It includes supervised exercise. It addresses cholesterol, blood pressure, diabetes, smoking, nutrition, weight, medications, stress, and depression. Major cardiology guidelines recommend it. Medicare covers it. Most eligible patients never do it. The treatment is […]