Exercise capacity and mortality among men referred for exercise testing

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 346, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 793-801

  Myers, Jonathan ^a,b   Prakash, Manish ^a   Froelicher, Victor ^a   Do, Dat ^a   Partington, Sara ^a   Edwin Atwood, J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; DIGOXIN; NITRATE;

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLAUDICATION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY STENT; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREADMILL ERGOMETRY;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037076018     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa011858     Document Type: Article

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