Characteristics of the 88 Included Patients Who Completed the Analysis.

Values are given as arithmetic mean ± standard deviation (SD) or number of patients (%)*1 New York Heart Association (NYHA) Functional Classification*2 Myocardial infarction dated back more than 48 hours*3 Minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, maximumThe study patients had a mean age of approx. 64 years with a ratio of women (n = 17) to men (n = 71) of approximately 1:4. Patients were preobese, with a mean BMI of 27.7, and 7 patients (8%) had no symptoms of angina pectoris.Characteristics of the 88 Included Patients Who Completed the Analysis.