Joep Perk, Peter Mathes, Helmut Gohlke, Catherine Monpère,
Irene Hellemans, Hannah McGee, Philippe Sellier,
and Hugo Saner, Editors

2007

Over the past decades the medical care of the patient with cardiovascular disease (CVD) has shown an impressive development, with marked positive consequences for mortality, morbidity, and the quality of life of coronary patients. This improvement has profoundly changed the arena in which cardiac rehabilitation (CR) has been acting over the past 40 years.