Abstract: Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a frequently-occurring cardiovascular disease in the clinical setting with high mortality rate.Negative emotions, such as anxiety and depression, are common in patients with CHD. These negative emotions predict a worse prognosis and rehabilitation outcome and impair the patients' quality of life. Cardiac rehabilitation can improve the emotion of anxiety and depression effectively and provide superior benefits in quality of life in CHD patients.

Key words: coronary heart disease, rehabilitation, anxiety, depression, review