[Work capacity and motor activity of patients with a history of myocardial infarct]

A total of 241 patients with a past history of AMI were followed up with a view to the restoration of their capacity for work and its dependence on their motor activity. All deceased, 6 months after the acute infarction, were also included in the group. Work was resumed by 43,7 per cent from the whole group. But the percentage of the patients with preserved capacity for work to the age of 60 that had outlived the 5-year observation period is 75; 63, out of 84 subjects at that age, began work within an average period of 8 months after the onset of the infarction. The periods till the beginning work of our patients are longer as compared with the periods reported by foreign authors. An obvious correlation was established between the patients' capacity for work, with a past history of AMI, and their motor activity.