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Gender differences in recovery after coronary artery bypass surgery

Viola Vaccarino, MD, PhD^*,*, Zhen Qiu Lin, PhD, Stanislav V. Kasl, PhD, Jennifer A. Mattera, MPH, Sarah A. Roumanis, RN, Jerome L. Abramson, PhD^* and Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, FACC^||

^* Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
^|| Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

View larger version (26K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Changes in SF-36 physical function (PF) score in men and women after stratification according to quintiles of baseline score. p < 0.0001 for comparison by gender in each stratum. Dashed lines = men; solid lines = women.