Cardiac Rehabilitation in Very Old Adults: Effect of Baseline Functional Capacity on Treatment Effectiveness.

Objectives: To assess the effect of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) and identify predictors of changes in functional capacity with CR in a consecutive series of older adults with a recent cardiac event.

Design: Observational.

Setting: In-hospital CR unit.

Type D personality impairs quality of life, coping and short-term psychological outcome in patients attending an outpatient intensive program of cardiac rehabilitation.

Background: Type D personality represents a risk factor for adverse outcome and impaired Quality of Life (QoL) in CHD patients. Only few studies investigated Type D patients following cardiac rehabilitation (CR). No study investigated Type D personality in Italian patients attending a CR program of 4 weeks.

25-Hydroxycholecalciferol in experimental osteoporosis.

Unlabelled: The authors, using the experimental pattern of bone rarefaction induced by a low calcium diet, tried to determine if 25-hydroxycholecalciferol, administered at doses and according to procedures similar to those used in osteoporosis, might interfere in such a process of rarefaction. The statistical evaluation of the results concerning the size of the amount of spongy bone presented evidence for the sharp decrease in the specific bone volume in rats placed on a low calcium diet as compared to control rats. Such a difference is found even between rats treated with 25-OH-D3.

[Evaluation of the effects of anabolic steroids, calcitonin and 25-hydroxycholecalciferol on the spongy bone of rats].

Prevention of the experimental bone rarefaction which occurs in rats put on a low calcium diet was attempted by using salmon calcitonin and 25 hydroxyvitamin D given with a similar regimen to that used in human disease. Results were compared with the previously reported effects of synthetic anabolic steroids. Statistical analysis was carried out on measurements of cancellous bone mass.