Beta-blocker and exercise capacity: An always relevant interference?

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 967-

  Gläser, Sven ^a   Schäper, Christoph ^a   Ewert, Ralf ^a   Koch, Beate ^a   Völzke, Henry ^a   Opitz, Christian F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b German Red Cross Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANAEROBIC EXERCISE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BICYCLE; BODY MASS; BODY PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOPULMONARY EXERCISE TEST; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GAS EXCHANGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; LUNG FUNCTION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SEX RATIO; SMOKING CESSATION; SPIROMETRY;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; EXERCISE; HUMANS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; PHYSICAL EXERTION; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE;

EID: 67650067603     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3181af696     Document Type: Letter

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