Health-care costs and exercise capacity

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Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 608-613

  Weiss, J Peter ^a   Froelicher, Victor F ^a,b   Myers, Jonathan N ^a   Heidenreich, Paul A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Exercise capacity; Exercise testing; Health care costs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

EID: 4243116554     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.126.2.608     Document Type: Article

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