Sex differences and predictors of completion of a 6-month exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation program in 1,536 people following stroke.

Objective: To retrospectively examine sex-differences and predictors of completion in consecutively-referred patients to a 6-month exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation program (CRP) from 2006 to 2017.

Materials/methods: People with hemiplegic gait participated in stroke-adapted-CRP; otherwise, traditional-CRP. Reasons for non-completion were ascertained by interview.