Exercise capacity in adult African-American referred for exercise stress testing: Is fitness affected by race?

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Volumn 126, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1962-1968

  Lavie, Carl J ^a,b   Kuruvanka, Tulsidas ^a   Milani, Richard V ^a   Prasad, Ananth ^a   Ventura, Hector O ^a  

^a JOHN OCHSNER HEART AND VASCULAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Exercise testing; Fitness; Obesity; Race

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FITNESS; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 10444271765     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.126.6.1962     Document Type: Article

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