The prognostic importance of abnormal heart rate recovery and chronotropic response among exercise treadmill test patients

American Heart Journal

Volumn 156, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 736-744

  Maddox, Thomas M ^a   Ross, Colleen ^b   Ho, P Michael ^a   Masoudi, Frederick A ^a   Magid, David ^b   Daugherty, Stacie L ^a   Peterson, Pam ^a   Rumsfeld, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONOTROPISM; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DUKE TREADMILL SCORE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE; HEART RATE RECOVERY; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREADMILL EXERCISE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 53149113836     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2008.05.025     Document Type: Article

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