Population
24 patients with chronic heart failure and mild chronotropic incompetence, mean age 60.1 +/- 14.0 years.
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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May underlie exercise intolerance in chronic HF; hypothesis-generating for sympathetic chronotropic modulation.
In patients with chronic heart failure, impaired chronotropic response to sympathetic stimulation contributes to inadequate cardiac output and reduced exercise tolerance.
Samejima et al. (2003) studied this question.
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