Assessment of cardiac performance: Short- and medium-term variability of impedance cardiography at rest and during dynamic exercise

International Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 93-95

  Sundberg, S ^a   Akkila, J ^a  

^a Research Centre   (Finland)

Author keywords

Exercise; Healthy volunteers; Impedance cardiography; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMIC EXERCISE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART PERFORMANCE; HEART RATE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPEDANCE CARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CARDIOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; EXERCISE; HEART FUNCTION TESTS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REST; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 0029877635     PISSN: 09461965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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