Assessing maximal exercise capacity: Peak work or peak oxygen consumption?

Respiratory Care

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 90-96

  Kaminsky, David A ^a   Knyazhitskiy, Alexey ^b   Sadeghi, Ali ^c   Irvin, Charles G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaerobic threshold; Cardiopulmonary exercise test; Maximal oxygen consumption; Work capacity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAEROBIC THRESHOLD; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREATHING; BREATHING RESERVE; CARDIOPULMONARY EXERCISE TEST; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DYSPNEA; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT PARAMETERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VENTILATORY EFFICIENCY; WORKLOAD;

ANAEROBIC THRESHOLD; CARDIOPULMONARY EXERCISE TEST; MAXIMAL OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; WORK CAPACITY;

AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; EXPIRATORY RESERVE VOLUME; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 84891433173     PISSN: 00201324     EISSN: 19433654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4187/respcare.02253     Document Type: Article

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