Cardiopulmonary Fitness and Heart Rate Recovery as Predictors of Mortality in a Referral Population
Why the study?
Do functional aerobic capacity and heart rate recovery predict all-cause mortality in individuals without known cardiovascular disease referred for exercise stress testing?
Population
6,546 individuals with no known cardiovascular disease referred for exercise stress testing between 1993 and…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
8.1±3.7 years
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Discussion
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Implication
May enhance risk stratification in primary prevention referrals; extends observational data but remains hypothesis-generating.
Structured PICO
Do functional aerobic capacity and heart rate recovery predict all-cause mortality in individuals without known cardiovascular disease referred for exercise stress testing?
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Population
6,546 individuals with no known cardiovascular disease referred for exercise stress testing between 1993 and 2003, mean age 49 years, 58% men.
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Intervention
Exercise stress testing parameters (functional aerobic capacity [FAC] and heart rate recovery [HRR])
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Outcome
All-cause mortalityhard clinical
Functional aerobic capacity and heart rate recovery during exercise stress testing are independent predictors of all-cause mortality in patients without known cardiovascular disease.
Cite This Study
Dhoble et al. (2014) studied this question.