VE/Vco2 slope and oxygen uptake efficiency slope in patients with coronary artery disease and intermediate peakVo2

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 916-923

  Van de Veire, Nico R ^a   Van Laethem, Christophe ^b,d   Philippã, Jan ^a   de Winter, Olivier ^a   de Backer, Guy ^c   Vanderheyden, Marc ^d   de Sutter, Johan ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Artevelde Hogeschool   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^d OLV HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

coronary artery disease; exercise capacity; heart failure; oxygen uptake efficiency slope; VE Vco2 slope

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CARBON DIOXIDE; NEUROHORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE MARKER; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LUNG MINUTE VOLUME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SPIROMETRY; WALKING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERGOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33845389116     PISSN: 20474873     EISSN: 20474881     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.hjr.0000238400.35094.72     Document Type: Article

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