Exercise capacity and prognosis in chronic heart failure

Circulation

Volumn 119, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 3165-3167

  Myers, Jonathan ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; EDITORIAL; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; HEART FAILURE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMAN; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

CHRONIC DISEASE; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 67650736253     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.873430     Document Type: Editorial

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