Exercise Test

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 2012 ACCF/AHA/ACP/AATS/PCNA/SCAI/STS Guideline for the diagnosis and management of patients with stable ischemic heart disease: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines, and the American College of Physicians, American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, and Society of Thoracic Surgeons. 
  • 2014 AHA/ACC guideline for the management of patients with valvular heart disease: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. 
  • A brief self-administered questionnaire to determine functional capacity (the Duke Activity Status Index). 
  • A comparison of 3 methodological approaches to defining major clinically important improvement of 4 performance measures in patients with hip osteoarthritis. 
  • A controlled trial of sildenafil in advanced idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. 
  • A cooperative network of trained sites for the conduct of a complex clinical trial: a new concept in multicenter clinical research. 
  • A cross-sectional study of exercise performance during the first 2 decades of life after the Fontan operation. 
  • A metaanalysis of predischarge risk stratification after acute myocardial infarction with stress electrocardiographic, myocardial perfusion, and ventricular function imaging. 
  • A multicenter pilot study of a bronchial valve for the treatment of severe emphysema. 
  • A phase 3, randomized, double-blinded, active-controlled, unblinded standard of care study assessing the efficacy and safety of intramyocardial autologous CD34+ cell administration in patients with refractory angina: design of the RENEW study. 
  • A pilot study of partial unweighted treadmill training in mobility-impaired older adults. 
  • A prospective randomized wait list control trial of intravenous iron sucrose in older adults with unexplained anemia and serum ferritin 20-200 ng/mL. 
  • A young patient with exercise-induced polymorphic ventricular tachycardia. 
  • ACC/AHA 2002 guideline update for exercise testing: summary article. A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee to Update the 1997 Exercise Testing Guidelines). 
  • ACC/AHA 2002 guideline update for exercise testing: summary article: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee to Update the 1997 Exercise Testing Guidelines). 
  • ACC/AHA Guidelines for Exercise Testing. A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee on Exercise Testing). 
  • ACC/AHA guidelines for exercise testing: executive summary. A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee on Exercise Testing). 
  • ACR clinical statement on noninvasive cardiac imaging. 
  • Absence of sex bias in the referral of patients for cardiac catheterization. 
  • Accelerometer-Measured Daily Activity in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: Clinical Correlates and Association With Standard Heart Failure Severity Indices. 
  • Accuracy of VO2(max) prediction equations in older adults. 
  • Achieving the Full "PROMISE" of Imaging Outcomes Research. 
  • Addition of right-sided and posterior precordial leads during stress testing. 
  • Adenosine stress cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. 
  • Aerobic exercise reduces levels of cardiovascular and sympathoadrenal responses to mental stress in subjects without prior evidence of myocardial ischemia. 
  • Age and activity status affect muscle reoxygenation time after maximal cycling exercise. 
  • Age attenuates leucine oxidation after eccentric exercise. 
  • Aging and pain perception in ischemic heart disease. 
  • Altered expression of myosin heavy chain in the vastus lateralis muscle in patients with COPD. 
  • An economic analysis of an aggressive diagnostic strategy with single photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging and early exercise stress testing in emergency department patients who present with chest pain but nondiagnostic electrocardiograms: results from a randomized trial. 
  • An exploratory study of cardiac function and oxygen uptake during cycle ergometry in overweight children. 
  • An official European Respiratory Society/American Thoracic Society technical standard: field walking tests in chronic respiratory disease. 
  • An official systematic review of the European Respiratory Society/American Thoracic Society: measurement properties of field walking tests in chronic respiratory disease. 
  • An overview of risk assessment in coronary artery disease. 
  • Anatomic and prognostic implications of an early positive treadmill exercise test. 
  • Angina pectoris in type A and type B cardiac patients. 
  • Aortocoronary bypass surgery: Correlation of angiographic symptomatic and functional improvement at 1 year. 
  • Appropriate Use of Cardiac Stress Testing with Imaging: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. 
  • Appropriateness of cardiac stress test use among primary care physicians and cardiologists in the United States. 
  • Arterial pulse pressure and postoperative morbidity in high-risk surgical patients. 
  • Assessing exertional dyspnea in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. 
  • Assessing physicians' estimates of the probability of coronary artery disease: the influence of patient characteristics. 
  • Assessment of functional capacity before major non-cardiac surgery: an international, prospective cohort study. 
  • Assessment of physical functioning in recurrent glioma: preliminary comparison of performance status to functional capacity testing. 
  • Assessment of regional left ventricular function using gated radionuclide angiography. 
  • Assessment of ventricular function in coronary artery disease by means of atrial pacing and exercise. 
  • Association between double-leg squat and single-leg squat performance and injury incidence among incoming NCAA Division I athletes: A prospective cohort study. 
  • Association between muscle fiber composition and blood pressure levels during exercise in men. 
  • Association of systolic blood pressure at time of myocardial ischemia with angina pectoris during exercise testing. 
  • Associations between positive emotional well-being and stress-induced myocardial ischemia: Well-being scores predict exercise-induced ischemia. 
  • Autologous CD34+ Cell Therapy for Refractory Angina: 2-Year Outcomes From the ACT34-CMI Study. 
  • Automated and nomographic analysis of exercise tests. 
  • Autonomic regulation of systemic inflammation in humans: A multi-center, blinded observational cohort study. 
  • Baseline 6-min walk distance predicts survival in lung transplant candidates. 
  • Blood Pressure Response during Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Heart Failure. 
  • Body composition in ambulatory women with multiple sclerosis. 
  • Branched-chain amino acid supplementation and indicators of muscle damage after endurance exercise. 
  • Can walking patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction tell us who should walk also to the catheterization laboratory or just walk home? 
  • Cardiac function during rest and exercise in patients with mitral valve prolapse. Role of radionuclear angiocardiography. 
  • Cardiac phantom evaluation of simultaneously acquired dual-isotope rest thallium-201/stress technetium-99m SPECT images. 
  • Cardiac response to exercise in patients with chronic aortic regurgitation. 
  • Cardiopulmonary exercise testing prior to myeloablative allo-SCT: a feasibility study. 
  • Cardiopulmonary fitness in patients undergoing hematopoietic SCT: a pilot study. 
  • Cardiopulmonary function and age-related decline across the breast cancer survivorship continuum. 
  • Cardiorespiratory exercise testing in clinical oncology research: systematic review and practice recommendations. 
  • Cardiorespiratory fitness and cognitive function in midlife: neuroprotection or neuroselection? 
  • Cardiorespiratory fitness and health-related quality of life in bariatric surgery patients. 
  • Cardiorespiratory fitness in breast cancer patients: a call for normative values. 
  • Cardiovascular Function in Long-Term Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Survivors. 
  • Cardiovascular disease risk stratification with stress single-photon emission computed tomography technetium-99m tetrofosmin imaging in patients with the metabolic syndrome and diabetes mellitus. 
  • Cardiovascular responses during upright and semi-recumbent cycle ergometry testing. 
  • Cardiovascular screening in asymptomatic adults: lessons for the diving world. 
  • Care of the Patient with Chest Pain in the Observation Unit. 
  • Central versus lower body obesity distribution and the association with lower limb physical function and disability. 
  • Changes in Medical Therapy and Lifestyle After Anatomical or Functional Testing for Coronary Artery Disease. 
  • Characteristics and outcomes of patients with heart failure and discordant findings by right-sided heart catheterization and cardiopulmonary exercise testing. 
  • Chronic oral amrinone therapy in congestive heart failure: a double-blind placebo-controlled withdrawal study. 
  • Clinical assessment of beta blockade. 
  • Clinical correlates and prognostic significance of type A behavior and silent myocardial ischemia on the treadmill. 
  • Clinical implications of chronic heart failure phenotypes defined by cluster analysis. 
  • Clinical implications of referral bias in the diagnostic performance of exercise testing for coronary artery disease. 
  • Clinical meaningfulness of the changes in muscle performance and physical function associated with testosterone administration in older men with mobility limitation. 
  • Clinical prediction models: are we building better mousetraps? 
  • Clinician-friendly lower extremity physical performance measures in athletes: a systematic review of measurement properties and correlation with injury, part 1. The tests for knee function including the hop tests. 
  • Clinician-friendly lower extremity physical performance tests in athletes: a systematic review of measurement properties and correlation with injury. Part 2--the tests for the hip, thigh, foot and ankle including the star excursion balance test. 
  • Combined exercise radionuclide angiocardiography and single photon emission computed tomography perfusion studies for assessment of coronary artery disease. 
  • Commentary on "Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Children and Adolescents With Dystrophinopathies: A Pilot Study". 
  • Comparing the 7-day physical activity recall with a triaxial accelerometer for measuring time in exercise. 
  • Comparison of 30-day outcome, resource use, and coronary artery disease severity in patients with suspected coronary artery disease with and without diabetes mellitus assigned to chest pain units. 
  • Comparison of Frequency of Frailty and Severely Impaired Physical Function in Patients ≥60 Years Hospitalized With Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Versus Chronic Stable Heart Failure With Reduced and Preserved Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction. 
  • Comparison of bicycle and treadmill radionuclide angiocardiography. 
  • Comparison of electrocardiographic and left ventricular functional changes during exercise. 
  • Comparison of exercise electrocardiography and stress perfusion CMR for the detection of coronary artery disease in women. 
  • Comparison of impedance cardiographic measurements using band and spot electrodes. 
  • Comparison of jump-landing protocols with Biodex Balance System as measures of dynamic postural stability in athletes. 
  • Comparison of performance status with peak oxygen consumption in operable patients with non-small-cell lung cancer. 
  • Comparison of rest and exercise radionuclide angiocardiography and exercise treadmill testing for diagnosis of anatomically extensive coronary artery disease. 
  • Comparison of stress cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) with stress nuclear perfusion for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. 
  • Comparison of the prognostic value of regadenoson and adenosine myocardial perfusion imaging. 
  • Complete resolution of systemic venous baffle obstruction and baffle leak using the Gore Excluder covered stent in two patients with transposition of the great arteries and prior Mustard procedure. 
  • Congenital heart disease and pulmonary hypertension. 
  • Coping effectively with heart failure (COPE-HF): design and rationale of a telephone-based coping skills intervention. 
  • Deconditioning fails to explain peripheral skeletal muscle alterations in men with chronic heart failure. 
  • Decreased muscle oxygenation and increased arterial blood flow in the non-exercising limb during leg exercise. 
  • Depression and increased myocardial ischemic activity in patients with ischemic heart disease. 
  • Depressive symptoms and mental stress-induced myocardial ischemia in patients with coronary heart disease. 
  • Detecting abnormalities in left ventricular function during exercise before angina and ST-segment depression. 
  • Detection of myocardial ischemia by stress perfusion cardiovascular magnetic resonance. 
  • Detection of restenosis after elective percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty using the exercise treadmill test. 
  • Detection of silent myocardial ischemia in diabetes mellitus. 
  • Determinants of variable exercise performance among patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction. 
  • Diagnostic Strategies for the Evaluation of Chest Pain: Clinical Implications From SCOT-HEART and PROMISE. 
  • Diagnostic and prognostic significance of exercise-induced premature ventricular complexes in men and women: a four year follow-up. 
  • Diagnostic testing. 
  • Dietary carbohydrate intake and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein in at-risk women and men. 
  • Dietary nitrate supplementation enhances exercise performance in peripheral arterial disease. 
  • Differences in skeletal muscle between men and women with chronic heart failure. 
  • Differentiation of hemodynamic, humoral and metabolic responses to beta 1- and beta 2-adrenergic stimulation in man using atenolol and propranolol. 
  • Diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide. 
  • Diffusion limitation in normal humans during exercise at sea level and simulated altitude. 
  • Digoxin-induced positive exercise tests: their clinical and prognostic significance. 
  • Dobutamine stress echocardiography for orthotopic liver transplant evaluation. 
  • Dobutamine stress echocardiography for preoperative cardiac risk stratification in patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation. 
  • Does ambulatory monitoring contribute to exercise testing and myocardial perfusion scintigraphy in the prediction of the extent of coronary artery disease in stable angina? 
  • Downstream procedures and outcomes after stress testing for chest pain without known coronary artery disease in the United States. 
  • Early exercise training in patients older than age 65 years compared with that in younger patients after acute myocardial infarction or coronary artery bypass grafting. 
  • Economic Outcomes With Anatomical Versus Functional Diagnostic Testing for Coronary Artery Disease. 
  • Effect of Inorganic Nitrite vs Placebo on Exercise Capacity Among Patients With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: The INDIE-HFpEF Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effect of Type A behavior on exercise test outcome in coronary artery disease. 
  • Effect of aerobic training on the host systemic milieu in patients with solid tumours: an exploratory correlative study. 
  • Effect of age on the response of the left ventricular ejection fraction to exercise. 
  • Effect of brief and prolonged exercise on left ventricular function. 
  • Effect of digoxin on ST-segment changes detected by ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring in healthy subjects. 
  • Effect of inadequate cardiac output reserve on exercise tolerance in patients with moderate mitral stenosis. 
  • Effect of increasing pump speed during exercise on peak oxygen uptake in heart failure patients supported with a continuous-flow left ventricular assist device. A double-blind randomized study. 
  • Effect of left anterior hemiblock on exercise-induced ST-T segment changes. 
  • Effect of peripheral arterial disease on functional and clinical outcomes in patients with heart failure (from HF-ACTION). 
  • Effect of rate-dependent left bundle branch block on global and regional left ventricular function. 
  • Effective training for patients with intermittent claudication. 
  • Effects of Age and Military Service on Strength and Physiological Characteristics of U.S. Army Soldiers. 
  • Effects of Exercise Restriction on Patients With Anomalous Aortic Origin of a Coronary Artery. 
  • Effects of Two Years of Calorie Restriction on Aerobic Capacity and Muscle Strength. 
  • Effects of Xanthine Oxidase Inhibition in Hyperuricemic Heart Failure Patients: The Xanthine Oxidase Inhibition for Hyperuricemic Heart Failure Patients (EXACT-HF) Study. 
  • Effects of aerobic exercise training on hemodynamic responses during psychosocial stress in normotensive and borderline hypertensive type A men: a preliminary report. 
  • Effects of aerobic exercise training, age, and physical fitness on memory-search performance. 
  • Effects of beta 1-selective and nonselective beta-adrenoceptor blockade during exercise conditioning in healthy adults. 
  • Effects of exercise training on health status in patients with chronic heart failure: HF-ACTION randomized controlled trial. 
  • Effects of exercise training on left ventricular function in normal subjects: a longitudinal study by radionuclide angiography. 
  • Effects of exercise training on ventricular function in patients with recent myocardial infarction. 
  • Effects of ingesting 6% and 12% glucose/electrolyte beverages during prolonged intermittent cycling in the heat. 
  • Effects of left ventricular assist device support on biomarkers of cardiovascular stress, fibrosis, fluid homeostasis, inflammation, and renal injury. 
  • Effects of physical activity on exercise tests and respiratory function. 
  • Effects of physical conditioning on left ventricular ejection fraction in patients with coronary artery disease. 
  • Effects of propranolol on left ventricular function in normal men. 
  • Efficiency comparison between 99m Tc-tetrofosmin and 99m Tc-sestamibi myocardial perfusion studies. 
  • Eight-year follow-up of exercise electrocardiograms in healthy, middle-aged aviators. 
  • Ejection fraction response to exercise in patients with chest pain and normal coronary arteriograms. 
  • Electrocardiographic differentiation of the ST-segment depression of acute myocardial injury due to the left circumflex artery occlusion from that of myocardial ischemia of nonocclusive etiologies. 
  • Electrocardiography to define clinical status in primary pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary arterial hypertension secondary to collagen vascular disease. 
  • Elevated preoperative heart rate is associated with cardiopulmonary and autonomic impairment in high-risk surgical patients. 
  • Enhancing Cardiac Rehabilitation With Stress Management Training: A Randomized, Clinical Efficacy Trial. 
  • Ethnic differences in the prognostic value of stress technetium-99m tetrofosmin gated single-photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging. 
  • Etiology of uncompleted exercise stress testing after ED chest pain evaluation. 
  • Evaluating the exposure and disease relationship with adjustment for different types of exposure misclassification: a regression approach. 
  • Evaluating the yield of medical tests. 
  • Evaluation of a provocative dyspnea severity score in acute heart failure. 
  • Evaluation of a supervised exercise program in a geriatric population. 
  • Evaluation of the Incremental Prognostic Utility of Increasingly Complex Testing in Chronic Heart Failure. 
  • Examining Differences in Movement Competency in Professional Baseball Players Born in the United States and Dominican Republic. 
  • Exercise behavior, functional capacity, and survival in adults with malignant recurrent glioma. 
  • Exercise blood pressure response during assisted circulatory support: comparison of the total artificial [corrected] heart with a left ventricular assist device during rehabilitation. 
  • Exercise capacity and mortality in patients with ischemic left ventricular dysfunction randomized to coronary artery bypass graft surgery or medical therapy: an analysis from the STICH trial (Surgical Treatment for Ischemic Heart Failure). 
  • Exercise dose response in muscle. 
  • Exercise heart rates in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. 
  • Exercise radionuclide angiocardiography predicts cardiac death in patients with coronary artery disease. 
  • Exercise responses before and after physical conditioning in patients with severely depressed left ventricular function. 
  • Exercise stress testing in evaluation of aortocoronary bypass surgery. Report of 123 patients. 
  • Exercise training of patients with ventricular dysfunction and heart failure. 
  • Exercise treadmill score for predicting prognosis in coronary artery disease. 
  • Exercise treadmill testing is a poor predictor of anatomic restenosis after angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Exercise, obesity, and asthma in children and adolescents. 
  • Exertional dyspnea in heart failure: a symptom unrelated to pulmonary function at rest or during exercise. Duke University Clinical Cardiology Studies (DUCCS) Exercise Group. 
  • Factors affecting sensitivity and specificity of exercise electrocardiography. Multivariable analysis. 
  • Fatigue alters lower extremity kinematics during a single-leg stop-jump task. 
  • Fetal umbilical artery Doppler response to graded maternal aerobic exercise and subsequent maternal mean arterial blood pressure: predictive value for pregnancy-induced hypertension. 
  • Five-year performance trends for older exercisers: a hierarchical model of endurance, strength, and flexibility. 
  • Frequency of physical activity, exercise capacity, and atherosclerotic heart disease risk factors in male police officers. 
  • Functional status, heart rate, and rhythm abnormalities in 521 Fontan patients 6 to 18 years of age. 
  • Gait speed as an incremental predictor of mortality and major morbidity in elderly patients undergoing cardiac surgery. 
  • Gas exchange and exercise capacity affect neurocognitive performance in patients with lung disease. 
  • Gender disparities in the diagnosis and treatment of non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes: large-scale observations from the CRUSADE (Can Rapid Risk Stratification of Unstable Angina Patients Suppress Adverse Outcomes With Early Implementation of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Guidelines) National Quality Improvement Initiative. 
  • Glucose uptake in muscle cell cultures from endurance-trained men. 
  • Graded exercise stress tests in angiographically documented coronary artery disease. 
  • Graded exercise testing following thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction: the importance of timing and infarct location. TPAT Study Group. 
  • Group Versus Individual Physical Therapy for Veterans With Knee Osteoarthritis: Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Guidelines for methacholine and exercise challenge testing-1999. This official statement of the American Thoracic Society was adopted by the ATS Board of Directors, July 1999. 
  • Heart failure survival score in patients with Chagas disease: correlation with functional variables. 
  • Heart rate and metabolic response to competitive squash in veteran players: identification of risk factors for sudden cardiac death. 
  • Hemodynamic indices of myocardial dysfunction correlate with dipyridamole thallium-201 SPECT. 
  • High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin I as a Gatekeeper for Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography and Stress Testing in Patients with Acute Chest Pain. 
  • Hostility, coronary heart disease, and ischemia. The role of socioeconomic status. 
  • IL-6 and TNF-alpha expression in, and release from, contracting human skeletal muscle. 
  • INDIE-HFpEF (Inorganic Nitrite Delivery to Improve Exercise Capacity in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction): Rationale and Design. 
  • Images in cardiovascular medicine. ST-elevation alternans and nonsustained polymorphic ventricular tachycardia in a patient with Prinzmetal (variant) angina. 
  • Immunological response in chronic fatigue syndrome following a graded exercise test to exhaustion. 
  • Impact of exercise stress testing on diagnostic gene expression in patients with obstructive and nonobstructive coronary artery disease. 
  • Impaired chronotropic and vasodilator reserves limit exercise capacity in patients with heart failure and a preserved ejection fraction. 
  • Improved cardiac risk assessment with noninvasive measures of coronary flow reserve. 
  • Improved detection of coronary artery disease by stress perfusion cardiovascular magnetic resonance with the use of delayed enhancement infarction imaging. 
  • Improved near-term coronary artery disease risk classification with gated stress myocardial perfusion SPECT. 
  • Improvement in the mechanical efficiency of walking: an explanation for the "placebo effect" seen during repeated exercise testing of patients with heart failure. Duke University Clinical Cardiology Studies (DUCCS) Exercise Group. 
  • In Vivo Tibial Cartilage Strains in Regions of Cartilage-to-Cartilage Contact and Cartilage-to-Meniscus Contact in Response to Walking. 
  • In vivo measurement of localized tibiofemoral cartilage strains in response to dynamic activity. 
  • Incidence of caffeine in serum of patients undergoing dipyridamole myocardial perfusion stress test by an intensive versus routine caffeine history screening. 
  • Increased alpha2 subunit-associated AMPK activity and PRKAG2 cardiomyopathy. 
  • Increased levels of apoptosis in gastrocnemius skeletal muscle in patients with peripheral arterial disease. 
  • Increased tibiofemoral cartilage contact deformation in patients with anterior cruciate ligament deficiency. 
  • Incremental and independent value of cardiopulmonary exercise test measures and the Seattle Heart Failure Model for prediction of risk in patients with heart failure. 
  • Incremental prognostic power of single-photon emission computed tomographic myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease. 
  • Influence of exercise training on T-wave alternans assessed during exercise test in heart failure patients. 
  • Influence of resting left ventricular function on the left ventricular response to exercise in patients with coronary artery disease. 
  • Inspiratory muscle strength and endurance during hyperinflation and histamine induced bronchoconstriction. 
  • International consensus outcome measures for patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies. Development and initial validation of myositis activity and damage indices in patients with adult onset disease. 
  • Intrabreath analysis of carbon monoxide uptake during exercise in patients at risk for lung injury. 
  • Intramyocardial, autologous CD34+ cell therapy for refractory angina. 
  • Invited commentary. 
  • Is there a threshold between peak oxygen uptake and self-reported physical functioning in older adults? 
  • Ischemia-driven revascularization: demonstrating and delivering a mature procedure in a mature way. 
  • Isokinetic testing of biceps strength and endurance in dominant versus nondominant upper extremities. 
  • Laboratory measures of exercise capacity and ventricular characteristics and function are weakly associated with functional health status after Fontan procedure. 
  • Lack of effect of increased inspired oxygen concentrations on maximal exercise capacity or ventilation in stable heart failure. 
  • Left ventricular function under stress before and after myocardial revascularization. 
  • Less body fat improves physical and physiological performance in army soldiers. 
  • Listing criteria for heart transplantation: International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation guidelines for the care of cardiac transplant candidates--2006. 
  • Localizing coronary artery obstructions with the exercise treadmill test. 
  • Lovastatin increases exercise-induced skeletal muscle injury. 
  • Low diagnostic yield of elective coronary angiography. 
  • Low hot pain threshold predicts shorter time to exercise-induced angina: results from the psychophysiological investigations of myocardial ischemia (PIMI) study. 
  • Low-volume muscle endurance training prevents decrease in muscle oxidative and endurance function during 21-day forearm immobilization. 
  • Lumbar spine and hip flexibility and trunk strength in helicopter pilots with and without low back pain history. 
  • METs and accelerometry of walking in older adults: standard versus measured energy cost. 
  • Magnitude of spinal muscle damage is not statistically associated with exercise-induced low back pain intensity. 
  • Measurement of Exercise Tolerance before Surgery (METS) study: a protocol for an international multicentre prospective cohort study of cardiopulmonary exercise testing prior to major non-cardiac surgery. 
  • Medical qualification of a commercial spaceflight participant: not your average astronaut. 
  • Mental stress--induced myocardial ischemia and cardiac events. 
  • Mental stress-induced ischemia in the laboratory and ambulatory ischemia during daily life. Association and hemodynamic features. 
  • Midlife Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Incident Cancer, and Survival After Cancer in Men: The Cooper Center Longitudinal Study. 
  • Modest increase in peak VO2 is related to better clinical outcomes in chronic heart failure patients: results from heart failure and a controlled trial to investigate outcomes of exercise training. 
  • Modifiable risk factors predict injuries in firefighters during training academies. 
  • Mountaineering oxygen mask performance at 4572 m. 
  • Muscle Oxygen Dynamics During Cycling Exercise in Angina Pectoris Patients. 
  • Myocardial perfusion and ventricular function measurements during total coronary artery occlusion in humans. A comparison with rest and exercise radionuclide studies. 
  • Myocardial perfusion, function, and dyssynchrony in patients with heart failure: baseline results from the single-photon emission computed tomography imaging ancillary study of the Heart Failure and A Controlled Trial Investigating Outcomes of Exercise TraiNing (HF-ACTION) Trial. 
  • Myocardial uptake and clearance of T1-201 in healthy subjects: comparison of adenosine-induced hyperemia and exercise stress. 
  • N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide and exercise capacity in chronic heart failure: data from the Heart Failure and a Controlled Trial Investigating Outcomes of Exercise Training (HF-ACTION) study. 
  • Necessity of hospitalization and stress testing in low risk chest pain patients. 
  • New York Heart Association functional class predicts exercise parameters in the current era. 
  • Noninvasive assessment of exercise cardiac function before and after pectus excavatum repair. 
  • Noninvasive determination of exercise cardiac function following Fontan operation. 
  • Nonuniform activity of human calf muscles during an exercise task. 
  • O2 saturation in the intercostal space during moderate and heavy constant-load exercise. 
  • Obesity, insulin resistance, and skeletal muscle nitric oxide synthase. 
  • Outcome prediction in patients at high risk for coronary artery disease: comparison between 99mTc tetrofosmin and 99mTc sestamibi. 
  • Outcomes of anatomical versus functional testing for coronary artery disease. 
  • Outcomes, health policy, and managed care: relationships between patient-reported outcome measures and clinical measures in outpatients with heart failure. 
  • PROspective Multicenter Imaging Study for Evaluation of chest pain: rationale and design of the PROMISE trial. 
  • Painless exercise ST deviation on the treadmill: long-term prognosis. 
  • Pathophysiology and prognostic significance of Holter-detected ST segment depression after myocardial infarction. The Tissue Plasminogen Activator: Toronto (TPAT) Study Group. 
  • Pathophysiology and time course of silent myocardial ischaemia during mental stress: clinical, anatomical, and physiological correlates. 
  • Patient and program outcome assessment in pulmonary rehabilitation: an AACVPR statement. 
  • Patterns and predictors of recovery from exhaustion in older adults: the cardiovascular health study. 
  • Patterns and predictors of stress testing modality after percutaneous coronary stenting: data from the NCDR(®). 
  • Patterns of cardiac stress testing after revascularization in community practice. 
  • Patterns of stress testing and diagnostic catheterization after coronary stenting in 250 350 medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Peak oxygen consumption and long-term all-cause mortality in nonsmall cell lung cancer. 
  • Perfusion and function assessment by nuclear cardiology techniques. 
  • Perfusion and function at rest and treadmill exercise using technetium-99m-sestamibi: comparison of one- and two-day protocols in normal volunteers. 
  • Phenotype of Spirometric Impairment in an Aging Population. 
  • PhosphdiesteRasE-5 Inhibition to Improve CLinical Status and EXercise Capacity in Diastolic Heart Failure (RELAX) trial: rationale and design. 
  • Physical conditioning augments the fibrinolytic response to venous occlusion in healthy adults. 
  • Physical fitness predicts functional tasks in individuals with Down syndrome. 
  • Physician decision making and trends in the use of cardiac stress testing in the United States: an analysis of repeated cross-sectional data. 
  • Physiological and psychological variables predict compliance to prescribed exercise therapy in patients recovering from myocardial infarction. 
  • Physiological, psychological, and behavioral factors and white coat hypertension. 
  • Plantar flexion: an effective training for peripheral arterial disease. 
  • Plantar loading comparisons between women with a history of second metatarsal stress fractures and normal controls. 
  • Position as a variable for cardiovascular responses during exercise. 
  • Poststress measurements of left ventricular function with gated perfusion SPECT: comparison with resting measurements by using a same-day perfusion-function protocol. 
  • Postural exercise abnormalities in symptomatic patients with mitral valve prolapse. 
  • Potential neurobiological benefits of exercise in chronic pain and posttraumatic stress disorder: Pilot study. 
  • Pre-exercise participation cardiovascular screening in a heterogeneous cohort of adult cancer patients. 
  • Preclinical drug trials in the mdx mouse: assessment of reliable and sensitive outcome measures. 
  • Predicting adverse outcome with exercise SPECT technetium-99m sestamibi imaging in patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease. 
  • Predicting maximal HR in heart failure patients on β-blockade therapy. 
  • Predicting peak oxygen uptake among older patients with chronic illness. 
  • Prediction of death and nonfatal myocardial infarction in high-risk patients: a comparison between the Duke treadmill score, peak exercise radionuclide angiography, and SPECT perfusion imaging. 
  • Prediction of severe coronary artery disease by combined rest and exercise radionuclide angiocardiography and tomographic perfusion imaging with technetium 99m-labeled sestamibi: a comparison with clinical and electrocardiographic data. 
  • Preoperative exercise Vo2 measurement for lung resection candidates: results of Cancer and Leukemia Group B Protocol 9238. 
  • Preoperative noninvasive cardiac testing: which test and why? 
  • Prevalence and clinical characteristics of mental stress-induced myocardial ischemia in patients with coronary heart disease. 
  • Prevalence and predictors of nonobstructive coronary artery disease identified with coronary angiography in contemporary clinical practice. 
  • Prevention of bedrest-induced physical deconditioning by daily dobutamine infusions. Implications for drug-induced physical conditioning. 
  • Prognosis after change in left ventricular ejection fraction during mental stress testing in patients with stable coronary artery disease. 
  • Prognosis by measurements of left ventricular function during exercise. Duke Noninvasive Research Working Group. 
  • Prognosis in medically stabilized unstable angina: early Holter ST-segment monitoring compared with predischarge exercise thallium tomography. 
  • Prognosis of pulmonary arterial hypertension: ACCP evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. 
  • Prognostic Value of Coronary Artery Calcium in the PROMISE Study (Prospective Multicenter Imaging Study for Evaluation of Chest Pain). 
  • Prognostic Value of Noninvasive Cardiovascular Testing in Patients With Stable Chest Pain: Insights From the PROMISE Trial (Prospective Multicenter Imaging Study for Evaluation of Chest Pain). 
  • Prognostic estimation of coronary artery disease risk with resting perfusion abnormalities and stress ischemia on myocardial perfusion SPECT. 
  • Prognostic significance of exercise-induced complex ventricular arrhythmias in coronary artery disease with normal and abnormal left ventricular ejection fraction. 
  • Prognostic significance of functional capacity and exercise behavior in patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer. 
  • Prognostic usefulness of the six-minute walk in patients with advanced congestive heart failure secondary to ischemic or nonischemic cardiomyopathy. 
  • Prognostic value of CT angiography in patients with inconclusive functional stress tests. 
  • Prognostic value of a treadmill exercise score in outpatients with suspected coronary artery disease. 
  • Prognostic value of normal exercise and adenosine (99m)Tc-tetrofosmin SPECT imaging: results from the multicenter registry of 4,728 patients. 
  • Prognostic value of radionuclide angiography in medically treated patients with coronary artery disease. A comparison with clinical and catheterization variables. 
  • Prognostic value of radionuclide exercise testing after myocardial infarction. 
  • Prognostic value of stress myocardial perfusion positron emission tomography: results from a multicenter observational registry. 
  • Prognostic value of thallium-201 single-photon emission computed tomography for patients with multivessel coronary artery disease after revascularization (the Emory Angioplasty versus Surgery Trial [EAST]). 
  • Prognostic value of ventricular arrhythmias associated with treadmill exercise testing in patients studied with cardiac catheterization for suspected ischemic heart disease. 
  • Projected morbidity and mortality from missed diagnoses of coronary artery disease in the United States. 
  • Prolonged exercise alters beta-adrenergic responsiveness in healthy sedentary humans. 
  • Prosthetic replacement of the mitral valve. Preoperative and postoperative clinical and hemodynamic assessments in 100 patients. 
  • Provoked exercise desaturation in patent foramen ovale and impact of percutaneous closure. 
  • Psychological and physiological effects of physical conditioning on the elderly. 
  • Pump speed modulations and sub-maximal exercise tolerance in left ventricular assist device recipients: A double-blind, randomized trial. 
  • Quantitative measures of physical functioning after autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in multiple myeloma: a feasibility study. 
  • Ranolazine-related dyspnea on exertion. 
  • Rate-related left bundle branch block with chest pain and normal coronary arteriograms treated by exercise training. 
  • Rationale and design of the Aortic Valve replAcemenT versus conservative treatment in Asymptomatic seveRe aortic stenosis (AVATAR trial): A randomized multicenter controlled event-driven trial. 
  • Rationale for use of an exercise end point and design for the ADVANCE (A Dose evaluation of a Vasopressin ANtagonist in CHF patients undergoing Exercise) trial. 
  • Recombinant human pentraxin-2 therapy in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: safety, pharmacokinetics and exploratory efficacy. 
  • Recommendations for clinical exercise laboratories: a scientific statement from the american heart association. 
  • Reduced cardiorespiratory fitness in adult survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. 
  • Regulation of stroke volume during submaximal and maximal upright exercise in normal man. 
  • Relation between QRS changes and left ventricular function after coronary artery bypass grafting. 
  • Relation of coronary artery stenosis and pressure gradient to exercise-induced ischemia before and after coronary angioplasty. 
  • Relation of depression to severity of illness in heart failure (from Heart Failure And a Controlled Trial Investigating Outcomes of Exercise Training [HF-ACTION]). 
  • Relation of quantitative coronary lesion measurements to the development of exercise-induced ischemia assessed by exercise echocardiography. 
  • Relation of results of exercise stress tests in young women to phases of the menstrual cycle. 
  • Relation of ventricular premature complexes during recovery from a myocardial perfusion exercise stress test to myocardial ischemia. 
  • Relationship between exercise behavior, cardiorespiratory fitness, and cognitive function in early breast cancer patients treated with doxorubicin-containing chemotherapy: a pilot study. 
  • Relationship between leg muscle capillary density and peak hyperemic blood flow with endurance capacity in peripheral artery disease. 
  • Relationship of right- to left-sided ventricular filling pressures in advanced heart failure: insights from the ESCAPE trial. 
  • Relationships between in vivo and in vitro measurements of metabolism in young and old human calf muscles. 
  • Relative importance of electrode placement over number of channels in transient myocardial ischemia detection by Holter monitoring. 
  • Reliability of single-lead and multiple-lead electrocardiography during and after exercise. 
  • Report of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society's consensus conference on the Management of the Postmyocardial Infarction Patient. 
  • Reproducibility of peak oxygen uptake and other cardiopulmonary exercise testing parameters in patients with heart failure (from the Heart Failure and A Controlled Trial Investigating Outcomes of exercise traiNing). 
  • Responses of mental stress-induced myocardial ischemia to escitalopram treatment: background, design, and method for the Responses of Mental Stress Induced Myocardial Ischemia to Escitalopram Treatment trial. 
  • Resting ventricular-vascular function and exercise capacity in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a RELAX trial ancillary study. 
  • Rethinking sensitivity and specificity. 
  • Reverse redistribution on exercise thallium scintigraphy: relationship to coronary patency and ventricular function after myocardial infarction. 
  • Risk Assessment and Comparative Effectiveness of Left Ventricular Assist Device and Medical Management in Ambulatory Heart Failure Patients: The ROADMAP Study 2-Year Results. 
  • Risk stratification after myocardial infarction. 
  • Risk stratification in patients with chest pain. 
  • Risk stratification in patients with chest pain. 
  • Role of noninvasive testing in the clinical evaluation of women with suspected ischemic heart disease: a consensus statement from the American Heart Association. 
  • Role of right ventricular and pulmonary functional abnormalities in limiting exercise capacity in adults with congenital heart disease. 
  • Running kinematics and shock absorption do not change after brief exhaustive running. 
  • Safety and efficacy of aerobic training in operable breast cancer patients receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy: a phase II randomized trial. 
  • Safety and feasibility of adjunctive regadenoson injection at peak exercise during exercise myocardial perfusion imaging: The Both Exercise and Regadenoson Stress Test (BERST) trial. 
  • Selecting a noninvasive imaging study after an inconclusive exercise test. 
  • Serial assessment of ventricular performance after valve replacement for aortic stenosis. 
  • Sex differences in chest pain in patients with documented coronary artery disease and exercise-induced ischemia: Results from the PIMI study. 
  • Should the intent of testing influence its interpretation? 
  • Significant sex differences in the correlation of electrocardiographic exercise testing and coronary arteriograms. 
  • Sildenafil improves walk distance in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. 
  • Simultaneous measurement of myocardial perfusion and ventricular function during exercise from a single injection of technetium-99m sestamibi in coronary artery disease. 
  • Single photon emission computed tomography myocardial imaging: clinical applications and future directions. 
  • Single-photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging-assessed stress perfusion defect severity is associated with mortality independent of ethnicity in an Asian population. 
  • Skeletal muscle deoxygenation abnormalities in early post-myocardial infarction. 
  • Stress cardiac magnetic resonance imaging provides effective cardiac risk reclassification in patients with known or suspected stable coronary artery disease. 
  • Stress reactivity and exercise training in premenopausal and postmenopausal women. 
  • Summaries for patients. Trends in the use of stress testing to diagnose coronary heart disease. 
  • Supervised exercise training improves aerobic capacity and muscle strength in older women with heart failure. 
  • Suppression of Tumorigenicity 2 in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction. 
  • Swimming-Induced Pulmonary Edema: Pathophysiology and Risk Reduction With Sildenafil. 
  • Symptoms of patients with silent ischemia as detected by thallium stress testing. 
  • Taking heart failure to new heights: its pathophysiology at simulated altitude. 
  • The "rise of the rule out": The SPECTer of cardiac stress imaging. 
  • The HO-1/CO system regulates mitochondrial-capillary density relationships in human skeletal muscle. 
  • The accuracy of the electrocardiogram during exercise stress test based on heart size. 
  • The addition of body armor diminishes dynamic postural stability in military soldiers. 
  • The economic consequences of available diagnostic and prognostic strategies for the evaluation of stable angina patients: an observational assessment of the value of precatheterization ischemia. Economics of Noninvasive Diagnosis (END) Multicenter Study Group. 
  • The effects of exercise on cardiovascular biomarkers in patients with chronic heart failure. 
  • The influence of adjuvant therapy on cardiorespiratory fitness in early-stage breast cancer seven years after diagnosis: the Cooper Center Longitudinal Study. 
  • The influence of angiographically demonstrated coronary collaterals on the results of stress echocardiography. 
  • The influence of speed, grade and mass during simulated off road bicycling. 
  • The ischemic exercise test in normal adults and in patients with weakness and cramps. 
  • The relationship between plasma beta-endorphin, opioid receptor activity, and silent myocardial ischemia. 
  • The reproducibility of radionuclide angiographic measurements of left ventricular function in normal subjects at rest and during exercise. 
  • The reproducibility of the Bruce protocol exercise test for the determination of aerobic capacity in older women. 
  • The role of radionuclide angiocardiography in the preoperative prediction of pain relief and prolonged survival following coronary artery bypass grafting. 
  • The role of the exercise test in the evaluation of patients for ischemic heart disease. 
  • The utility of 6-minute walk distance in predicting waitlist mortality for lung transplant candidates. 
  • The utility of preoperative six-minute-walk distance in lung transplantation. 
  • The value of early out-patient cardiac exercise programmes for the elderly in comparison with other selected age groups. 
  • The value of estimated functional capacity in estimating outcome: results from the NHBLI-Sponsored Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) Study. 
  • The value of exercise thallium imaging. 
  • Time-of-day effect on cardiac responses to progressive exercise. 
  • Timed loaded standing: a measure of combined trunk and arm endurance suitable for people with vertebral osteoporosis. 
  • Unexpected Cardiac MRI Findings in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department for Possible Acute Coronary Syndrome. 
  • Updated assessment of the six-minute walk test as predictor of acute radiation-induced pneumonitis. 
  • Use of a prognostic treadmill score in identifying diagnostic coronary disease subgroups. 
  • Use of radionuclide measurements of left ventricular function for prognosis in patients with coronary artery disease. 
  • Use of stress testing and diagnostic catheterization after coronary stenting: association of site-level patterns with patient characteristics and outcomes in 247,052 Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Use of the 6-min walk distance to identify variations in treatment benefits from implantable cardioverter-defibrillator and amiodarone: results from the SCD-HeFT (Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Trial). 
  • Usefulness of exercise electrocardiography and thallium scintigraphy in unstable angina pectoris in predicting the extent and severity of coronary artery disease. 
  • Usefulness of ischemic response to mental stress in predicting silent myocardial ischemia during ambulatory monitoring. 
  • Usefulness of myocardial viability or ischemia in predicting long-term survival for patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction undergoing revascularization. 
  • Usefulness of serial radionuclide angiography in predicting cardiac death after coronary artery bypass grafting and comparison with clinical and cardiac catheterization data. 
  • Using an outcomes-based approach to identify candidates for risk stratification after exercise treadmill testing. 
  • Utility of 3-dimensional echocardiography, global longitudinal strain, and exercise stress echocardiography to detect cardiac dysfunction in breast cancer patients treated with doxorubicin-containing adjuvant therapy. 
  • Vagal determinants of exercise capacity. 
  • Validity of the Multidimensional Outcome Expectations for Exercise Scale in continuing-care retirement communities 
  • Value of cardiovascular magnetic resonance stress perfusion testing for the detection of coronary artery disease in women. 
  • Value of exercise treadmill testing in women. 
  • Value of radionuclide angiography for predicting specific cardiac events after acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Value of the history and physical in identifying patients at increased risk for coronary artery disease. 
  • Variables Measured During Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing as Predictors of Mortality in Chronic Systolic Heart Failure. 
  • Variation in the use of stress testing and outcomes in patients with non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes: insights from GUSTO IIb. 
  • Ventilation-perfusion inequality in normal humans during exercise at sea level and simulated altitude. 
  • Weekend and holiday exercise testing in patients with chest pain. 
  • Weight loss, exercise, or both and physical function in obese older adults. 
  • Where does fitness fit in? 
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  • Alexander, John Hunter Peel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology
  • Barker, Piers Christopher Andrew, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Cardiology
  • Brennan, J. Matthew, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology
  • Glass, Oliver Kent, Assistant Professor in Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Hall, Katherine Shepherd, Assistant Professor in Medicine, Medicine, Geriatrics
  • Hirschey, Matthew, Associate Professor, Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
  • Moffitt, Terrie E., Nannerl O. Keohane University Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience
  • Moon, Richard Edward, Professor of Anesthesiology, Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. / Guidant Foundation Professor of Cardiology, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology