ArticleAmerican heart journal2003
Comparison of health-related quality-of-life outcomes of men and women after coronary artery bypass surgery through 1 year: findings from the POST CABG Biobehavioral Study.
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Post Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) Study
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Granulocyte colony stimulating factor therapy for acute myocardial infarction.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013Pooled it
- Depressive symptoms after CABG surgery: a meta-analysis.Harvard review of psychiatryPooled it
- The Effect of Pulmonary Rehabilitation on Respiratory Functions, and the Quality of Life, following Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Randomised Controlled Study.BioMed research international · 2021Trial
- Comparison Between Effects of Home Based Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs Versus Usual Care on the Patients' Health Related Quality of Life After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft.Global journal of health science · 2015Trial
- Predictors of quality of life among women with coronary heart disease.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2007Trial
- Gender differences in recovery outcomes after an early recovery symptom management intervention.Heart & lung : the journal of critical careTrial
- Health-Related Quality of Life and Associated Factors Before and After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Multicentre Prospective Study in Cyprus.Interdisciplinary cardiovascular and thoracic surgery · 2026Article
- From preoperative to postoperative: gender differences in elective ventral hernia repair.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2026Article
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- Patient Satisfaction with Care After Coronary Revascularization.The patient · 2018Article
- Age and gender differences and factors related to change in health-related quality of life from before to 6 months after left ventricular assist device implantation: Findings from Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support.The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation · 2016Article
- Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction: Minding the Gaps in Our Knowledge of a Common Postoperative Complication in the Elderly.Anesthesiology clinics · 2015Review
- Re-birth after coronary bypass graft surgery: a hermeneutic-phenomenological study.Global journal of health science · 2014Article
- Predictors of early recovery of health status after intensive care.Intensive care medicine · 2006Article
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Abstract
backgroundWomen undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery have a worse medical condition and fewer social and financial resources than men. Some studies have found that women recover less well than men after CABG, whereas others have found women's outcomes comparable to those of men. Past studies of health-related quality of life after CABG have too few women for adequate comparison with men and have not included patients whose data are not available at baseline (eg, emergency CABG), limiting generalizability.
methodsA longitudinal study of symptoms and health-related quality of life was conducted among patients from four clinical centers enrolling both men (n = 405) and women (n = 269) in the Post CABG Biobehavioral Study in the United States and Canada.
resultsAfter 6 weeks from CABG (average 81 days), both men and women had less anxiety and symptoms related to depression than before surgery (P <.001). After 6 months (average 294 days), both men and women improved in physical and social functioning (P <.001). Although changes in scale scores were similar for men and women at each time point, women scored lower than men on these domains (P <.001, adjusted for baseline medical and sociodemographic differences) and had more symptoms related to depression through 1 year after CABG (P =.003).
conclusionsBoth male and female patients improve in physical, social, and emotional functioning after CABG, and recovery over time is similar in men and women. However, women's health-related quality-of-life scale scores remained less favorable than men's through 1 year after surgery.
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