October 28, 1999New England Journal of Medicine1,940 citationsOpen Access
Heart-Rate Recovery Immediately after Exercise as a Predictor of Mortality
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Structured PICO
Does a delayed decrease in heart rate after graded exercise predict overall mortality?
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Intervention
Delayed decrease in the heart rate during the first minute after graded exercise
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Outcome
Overall mortalityhard clinical
Heart-rate recovery immediately after exercise is a powerful, independent predictor of overall mortality.
Abstract
A delayed decrease in the heart rate during the first minute after graded exercise, which may be a reflection of decreased vagal activity, is a powerful predictor of overall mortality, independent of workload, the presence or absence of myocardial perfusion defects, and changes in heart rate during exercise.
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Cole et al. (1999) studied this question.