Currently, children with congenital heart disease are not limited in their submaximal exercise performance

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1096-1100

  Müllera, Jan ^a   Böhm, Birgit ^a   Semsch, Sebastian ^a   Oberhoffer, Renate ^a   Hess, John ^a   Hager, Alfred ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chronotropic impairment; Congenital heart disease; Exercise performance; Ventilatory anaerobic threshold

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANAEROBIC THRESHOLD; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY EXERCISE TEST; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD;

CHRONOTROPIC IMPAIRMENT; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; EXERCISE PERFORMANCE; VENTILATORY ANAEROBIC THRESHOLD;

ADOLESCENT; ANAEROBIC THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MALE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84878210408     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: 1873734X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejcts/ezs712     Document Type: Article

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