title: Prognostic value of peak exercise systolic blood pressure on long-term survival after myocardial infarction.
abstract: This study examined the association between peak exercise systolic blood pressure and other exercise test parameters and the long-term (19-year) survival of 625 patients with myocardial infarction who were original participants of the National Exercise and Heart Disease Project, a 3-year (1976 to 1979) multicenter randomized exercise clinical trial. Results show that low peak exercise systolic blood pressure (< or =140 mm Hg) was associated with increased mortality throughout the 19 years of follow-up, and men with this finding obtained no survival benefit from participating in an exercise program.
authors.affiliation: Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University at Buffalo, New York, USA. jdorn@acsu.buffalo.edu
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dorn
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Naughton
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Imamura
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Trevisan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015444:Exercise / Q000502:physiology*; D005080:Exercise Test; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000401:mortality* / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D011379:Prognosis; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D017741:Survivors; D013599:Systole