Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Reclassification of Risk for Incidence of Heart Failure: The Veterans Exercise Testing Study

Circulation: Heart Failure

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2017, Pages

  Myers, Jonathan ^a   Kokkinos, Peter ^b,c   Chan, Khin ^c   Dandekar, Eshan ^d   Yilmaz, Bilge ^a   Nagare, Atul ^a   Faselis, Charles ^b,c   Soofi, Muhammad ^e  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiorespiratory fitness; cardiovascular system; exercise testing; heart failure; incidence; risk factor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIORESPIRATORY FITNESS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLAUDICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; Q WAVE; TREADMILL EXERCISE; VETERAN; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; FORECASTING; INCIDENCE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIORESPIRATORY FITNESS; CAUSE OF DEATH; EXERCISE TEST; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORECASTING; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 85021128596     PISSN: 19413289     EISSN: 19413297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.116.003780     Document Type: Article

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