Risk of mortality increases with increasing number of abnormal non-ST parameters recorded during exercise testing

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 462-468

  ho, John S ^a   Fitzgerald, Shannon J ^a   Barlow, Carolyn E ^b   Cannaday, John J ^a   Kohl, Harold W ^c   Haskell, William L ^d   Cooper, Kenneth H ^a  

^a The Cooper Clinic   (United States)

^b Cooper Institute ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

exercise stress testing; mortality; non ST parameters

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHRONOTROPISM; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD RATIO; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TEXAS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77955446111     PISSN: 20474873     EISSN: 20474881     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HJR.0b013e328336a10d     Document Type: Article

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