In children and adolescents, unlike adults, a given percentage of heart rate reserve is not equivalent to its corresponding percentage of oxygen uptake reserve, though HR measures remain practical for prescribing exercise intensity.
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Caution advised applying adult %HRR-%VO2R equivalency in children; challenges assumptions and leaves open pediatric validation trials.
Hui et al. (2006) studied this question.
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