Population
66 healthy subjects, comprising 57 normal sedentary volunteers and 9 endurance athletes.
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Association between early diastolic filling and VO2 max may inform exercise physiology; cross-sectional data leave causality and clinical relevance open.
Left ventricular diastolic function, specifically early transmitral filling, strongly correlates with maximal exercise capacity in healthy subjects.
Vanoverschelde et al. (1993) studied this question.