Skeletal muscle mass independently predicts peak oxygen consumption and ventilatory response during exercise in noncachectic patients with chronic heart failure

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 2080-2085

  Cicoira, Mariantonietta ^a,b   Zanolla, Luisa ^a   Franceschini, Lorenzo ^a   Rossi, Andrea ^a   Golia, Giorgio ^a   Zamboni, Mauro ^a   Tosoni, Paolo ^a   Zardini, Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ALDOSTERONE; CARBON DIOXIDE; NORADRENALIN; OXYGEN; RENIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG VENTILATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE MASS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

AGED; BODY COMPOSITION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0035875771     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(01)01306-7     Document Type: Article

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