An Update on Exercise Stress Testing

Current Problems in Cardiology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 177-202

  Sharma, Kavita ^a   Kohli, Priya ^a   Gulati, Martha ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHRONOTROPISM; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84859118835     PISSN: 01462806     EISSN: 15356280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpcardiol.2011.11.004     Document Type: Article

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