Test-retest repeatability of cardiopulmonary exercise test variables in patients with cardiac or respiratory disease

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 445-453

  Barron, Anthony ^a   Dhutia, Niti ^a   Mayet, Jamil ^a   Hughes, Alun D ^a   Francis, Darrel P ^a   Wensel, Roland ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b WEST HERTFORDSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary exercise testing; reproducibility; test retest reliability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANAEROBIC THRESHOLD; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; BODY MASS; BREATHING RATE; CARDIOPULMONARY EXERCISE TEST; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERGOMETER; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GENDER; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; EVALUATION STUDY; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HEART RATE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTOR;

AGED; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; OBSERVER VARIATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84896445817     PISSN: 20474873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2047487313518474     Document Type: Article

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