Cardiac Rehabilitation in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease – Provision, Attendance, and Outcomes: Results from the INTERASPIRE Survey from Fourteen Countries Across Six WHO Regions

INTERASPIRE provides a standardised international picture of CR provision and attendance in patients with CHD. Despite CR being a Class 1 recommendation in all international guidelines, only one third of CHD patients reported being advised to attend any form of CR and just one in five patients attended 50% of the sessions, with striking heterogeneity between regions and countries. National cardiology societies should advocate to their governments for urgent investment in standardised CR services.