Determining prognosis in congestive heart failure: Role of the 6-minute walk test

American Heart Journal

Volumn 138, Issue 4 I, 1999, Pages 593-596

  Bittner, V ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; EDITORIAL; EXERCISE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WALKING;

EID: 0032886727     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-8703(99)70166-3     Document Type: Editorial

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