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• Heart disease >> Heart attack >> Age 51-60 >> Interview HA16 >> The cardiac rehabilitation nurse visited him at home soon after he was discharged from hospital.

Heart attack 1999. Thrombolytic (clotbuster) drug. Current medication: aspirin, ramipril, atenolol, simvastatin

• Heart disease >> Heart attack >> Age 51-60 >> Interview HA14 >> He found the heart manual marvellous.

Heart attack February 2003. At time of interview, waiting for an angiogram. Current medication: aspirin, ramipril, atenolol, GTN

• Heart disease >> Heart attack >> Age 51-60 >> Interview HA03 >> She got a lot out of the hospital cardiac rehabilitation programme.

Heart attack 1998. Thrombolytic (clotbuster) drug, five days in hospital. Coronary artery bypass surgery 2000. Current medication: aspirin, atorvastatin, bisoprolol, ramipril, isosorbide mononitrate.

• Heart disease >> Heart attack >> Age 61-70 >> Interview HA04 >> The rehabilitation was a huge help, and vital in his recovery.

Heart attack 2002. Thrombolytic (clotbuster) drug. Angioplasty and stent, in hospital eight days. Current medication: simvastatin, aspirin, ramipril, atenolol

• Heart disease >> Heart attack >> Age 71-80 >> Interview HA06 >> Rehabilitation gave him great confidence - he “was a different person at the end of it”.

Heart attack 1996, six days in hospital. Current medication: aspirin, metoprolol, isosorbide mononitrate, atorvastatin, glyceryl trinitrate.

• Heart disease >> Heart attack >> Age 61-70 >> Interview HA22 >> Support from the staff and talking to other heart patients at cardiac rehabilitation helped her to recover.

Heart attack February 2003. Stent fitted February 2003.Current medication: aspirin, atorvastatin, atenolol, bisoprolol fumarate (Cardicor), omeprazole

• Heart disease >> Heart attack >> Age 40-50 >> Interview HA36 >> Being the youngest woman at the cardiac rehab programme was very difficult.

Heart attack December 1998, in hospital10 days. Current medication: atenolol, aspirin, atorvastatin

• Heart disease >> Heart attack >> Age 61-70 >> Interview HA23 >> He runs the community based GP by referral exercise programme, which continues after cardiac rehabilitation.

Heart attack 1991. Heart attack 1998. Five blockages in main coronary artery. Stent or coronary artery bypass surgery not possible. Current medication: aspirin, diltiazem, losartan, isosorbide mononitrate

• Heart disease >> Heart attack >> Age 61-70 >> Interview HA19 >> He went to exercise classes run by the cardiac nurses once or week for three years after his heart attack.

Heart attack 1996. Heart attack 1999. Angioplasty 2000. Angioplasty 2004. Current medication: clopidogrel, aspirin, isosorbide mononitrate, losartin, doxazosin, simvastatin

• Heart disease >> Heart attack >> Age 61-70 >> Interview HA37 >> At cardiac rehabilitation he met a range of people with different experiences.

Heart attack 2001, in hospital for 5 days. Thrombolytic (clotbuster) drug. Coronary artery bypass surgery ten months later. Current medication: aspirin, ramipril, atenolol, simvastatin, paraxtine

• Heart disease >> Heart attack >> Age 61-70 >> Interview HA07 >> Describes the exercises he did and the cardiac rehab programme he went to recover from bypass surgery.

Heart attack 1998. Coronary artery bypass surgery 1998. Current medication: aspirin, simvastatin

• Heart disease >> Heart attack >> Aged 81 plus >> Interview HA15 >> She chose not to attend a cardiac rehabilitation programme and used the Heart Manual instead.

Heart attack January 2000. Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, May 2000. Current Medication: clopidogrel, frusemide, GTN.

• Heart disease >> Heart attack >> Aged under 40 >> Interview HA05 >> The cardiac rehab programme was not as strenuous as he would have liked it because he was the youngest there.

Cardiac arrest May 2001, 21 days in hospital. Coronary artery bypass surgery July 2001. Heart attack 2003, heart failure diagnosed. Current medication: aspirin, ramipril, carvedilol, clopidogrel, nicorandil

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Cardiac Rehabilitation and Support