Usefulness of impaired chronotropic response to exercise as a predictor of mortality, independent of the severity of coronary artery disease

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 602-609

  Dresing, Thomas J ^a   Blackstone, Eugene H ^a   Pashkow, Fredric J ^a   Snader, Claire E ^a   Marwick, Thomas H ^a   Lauer, Michael S ^a  

^a Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONOTROPISM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL RATE; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; OHIO; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0034665954     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(00)01036-5     Document Type: Article

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