Why does the heart rate response to exercise predict adverse cardiac events?

Heart

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 577-578

  Routledge, H C ^a   Townend, J N ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CYTOKINE;

ANGINA PECTORIS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; EXERCISE TEST; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MORTALITY; MYOCARDITIS; NONHUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS NODE; SINUS NODE DYSFUNCTION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; THROMBOGENICITY; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; HEART DISEASES; HEART RATE; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 33646266253     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2005.079400     Document Type: Editorial

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