Heart-rate recovery immediately after exercise as a predictor of mortality

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 341, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 1351-1357

  Cole, Christopher R ^a   Blackstone, Eugene H ^a   Pashkow, Fredric J ^a   Snader, Claire E ^a   Lauer, Michael S ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SCINTIGRAPHY; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VAGUS TONE; WORKLOAD;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COHORT STUDIES; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0032694263     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199910283411804     Document Type: Article

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