Exercise Intolerance

Heart Failure Clinics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 99-115

  Kitzman, Dalane W ^a   Groban, Leanne ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; CARDIOPULMONARY EXERCISE TEST; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; DIASTOLIC HEART FAILURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EXERCISE INTOLERANCE; EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LUNG VENTILATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; REVIEW; STARLING LAW;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DIASTOLE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROGNOSIS; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 39749200861     PISSN: 15517136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hfc.2007.12.002     Document Type: Review

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