High Exercise Capacity Attenuates the Risk of Early Mortality After a First Myocardial Infarction: The Henry Ford Exercise Testing (FIT) Project

Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 129-139

  Shaya, Gabriel E ^a,b   Al Mallah, Mouaz H ^a,c,e   Hung, Rupert K ^a   Nasir, Khurram ^a,d   Blumenthal, Roger S ^a   Ehrman, Jonathan K ^e   Keteyian, Steven J ^e   Brawner, Clinton A ^e   Qureshi, Waqas T ^f   Blaha, Michael J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

^d MIAMI CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY EXERCISE TEST; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EARLY MORTALITY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC EQUIVALENT; MORTALITY RISK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREADMILL EXERCISE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FITNESS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; METABOLIC EQUIVALENT; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PHYSICAL FITNESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84974707513     PISSN: 00256196     EISSN: 19425546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2015.11.012     Document Type: Article

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