Exercise training intervention after coronary angioplasty: the ETICA trial
Romualdo Belardinelli, MD, FESC*,
Ivana Paolini, PhD ,
Giovanni Cianci, MD ,
Roberto Piva, MD ,
Demetrios Georgiou, MD, FACC|| and
Augusto Purcaro, MD¶
* G. M. Lancisi Department of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Division of Cardiology 1, Ancona, Italy
Department of Cardiac Rehabilitation, Division of Cardiology 1, Ancona, Italy
Department of Chemistry, Division of Cardiology 1, Ancona, Italy
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Division of Cardiology 1, Ancona, Italy
|| Department of Cardiovascular Radiology and Hemodynamics, Division of Cardiology 1, Ancona, Italy
¶ Columbia University, Department of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

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Figure 1 Kaplan-Meier curves of all event-free survival in trained patients (solid line) and untrained controls (broken line) during follow-up. + = censored cases.
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Figure 2 Kaplan-Meier curves of hospital readmissions in trained patients (solid line) and untrained controls (broken line) during follow-up. + = censored cases.
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