Effects of Treating Exhaustion in Angioplasty Patients on New Coronary Events: Results of the Randomized Exhaustion Intervention Trial (EXIT)
Ad Appels, PhD,
Frits Bär, MD,
Gerda van der Pol,
Ruud Erdman, PhD,
Maarten Assman, MA,
Wim Trijsburg, PhD,
Rob van Diest, PhD,
Jan van Dixhoorn and
Carlos Mendes de Leon, PhD
From the Department of Medical Psychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands (A.A., G.v.d.P.); Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands (F.B.); Department of Cardiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (R.E.); Department of Medical Psychology, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (M.A.); Department of Medical Psychology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (W.T.); Department of Psychiatry, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands (R.v.D.); Center for Breathing Therapy, Amersfoort, The Netherlands (J.v.D.); 8. Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Rush-PresbyterianSt. Lukes Medical Center, Chicago, IL.

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Figure 1. Time to the occurrence of any new coronary event in the intervention group and in the control group
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