title: Predictive value of symptom-limited exercise testing for life expectancy in inoperable coronary patients with disabling angina.
abstract: 100 inoperable coronary patients defined by severe angina, multistenosed vessels and narrowed or thrombosed distal beds performed a symptom-limited exercise test before coronary angiogram. During a 46 +/- 30 month period of follow-up 29 died, 25 of whom by cardiac cause. Among the exercise test data, the most discriminant for long-term survival was the exercise capacity, in spite of a poor correlation parameter for prediction of life expectancy.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000787:Angina Pectoris / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001794:Blood Pressure; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005080:Exercise Test; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008017:Life Expectancy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged