Prognostic significance of systolic blood pressure increases in men during exercise stress testing.
Am J Cardiol
; 100(11): 1609-13, 2007 Dec 01.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-18036356
ABSTRACT
Our aim was to investigate whether exercise-induced increase in systolic blood pressure (BP) measured during exercise stress testing (EST) adds prognostic information to cardiovascular (CV) mortality. EST is ideally suited to evaluate the prognostic power of systolic BP; it not only measures systolic BP response to exercise but also provides information about exercise capacity and other EST variables, which may affect the peak systolic BP. The study population consisted of 6,145 consecutive patients who underwent symptom-limited EST. Using the median value of change in systolic BP from baseline, patients were grouped according to exercise-induced increases in systolic BP
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Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Blood Pressure
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Cardiovascular Diseases
Type of study:
Etiology_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limits:
Aged
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Language:
En
Year:
2007
Type:
Article