Reproducibility of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in elderly patients with congestive heart failure.
Elderly patients with congestive heart failure, including those with preserved systolic function, underwent maximal cardiopulmonary exercise testing. Maximal exercise oxygen consumption, exercise time, heart rate, respiratory exchange ratio, and ventilatory anaerobic threshold showed good reproducibility.
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Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1045, USA.
Brubaker
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Pollock
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Morgan
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Kitzman
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D000368:Aged; D015308:Anaerobic Threshold / Q000502:physiology; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005080:Exercise Test / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013599:Systole / Q000502:physiology