Provides a scientific foundation for designing cardiac rehabilitation programs to improve the functional abilities and decrease the symptoms of patients with cardiovascular disease. Emphasizes multidisciplinary care and the individualization of cardiac rehabilitation services along internationally recognized guidelines.

Despite huge media attention and public awareness, more dedicated publications, recent advances in pharmaceutical and medical device developments, heart disease in women is under-diagnosed, under-treated, and under-managed. What is wrong? Why? Many women fail to present in the clinic when symptomatic because of their responsibilities to the home, children and work. Often the first presentation follows a cardiac event. For many multicenter clinical trials, women are excluded regardless of age, cardiac events, or vascular health, because they are women, because they are of child-bearing age,...