Patients in cardiac rehabilitation programme--where we were in 1999 and where 10 years later.

The aim of this study was to find out and compare characteristics of cardiac patients who, after hospital treatment, participated in cardiac rehabilitation programmes at the Polyclinic for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation in Zagreb during 1999 and 2009. The results show an increase in mean patients' age (men: 55.5 to 61.