Value of 6-min-walk test for assessment of severity and prognosis of heart failure

Lancet

Volumn 355, Issue 9203, 2000, Pages 515-516

  Willenheimer, Ronnie ^a   Erhardt, Leif R ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSEL TONE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MORTALITY; MUSCLE CELL; NOTE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0034639707     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(99)00445-6     Document Type: Note

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