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For more than a decade, evidence-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) has been a Class I indication in clinical guidelines for patients with chronic stable angina, STEMI and NSTEMI, patients undergoing PCI and CABG, and heart failure. The benefits of CR speak for themselves. Evidence clearly shows that CR reduces all-cause mortality by 50% compared to patients with no CR, and it improves risk factors, functional status, quality of life, medication adherence, and keeps patients out of the hospital. A recent publication based on research at Mayo Clinic determined that there is a positive linear health benefit to the number of CR sessions – more sessions equivalated to a greater risk reduction with no upper threshold limit. In fact, their research showed that patients significantly benefit even after one additional session.i