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Heart rate response and chronotropic incompetence in exercise stress testing of asymptomatic women
Alfredo Jose Mansur1, Rafael Amorim Belo Nunes
1Heart Institute (InCor), Hospital das Clinicas of São Paulo University Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil. ajmansur@incor.usp.br
Abstract:
Evaluation of: Gulati M, Shaw LJ, Thisted RA, Black HR, Bairey Merz CN, Arnsdorf MF: Heart rate response to exercise stress testing in asymptomatic women: The St. James Women Take Heart Project. Circulation 122, 130-137 (2010). Peak heart rate achieved with exercise in 5437 asymptomatic women submitted to symptom-limited exercise stress testing demonstrated an inverse relationship with increasing age, expressed by 206-0.88(age), which is lower than the traditional estimate of 220-(age). A nomogram was derived. This new formula for estimating peak heart rate during exercise and the derived chronotropic incompetence was found to be a more accurate predictor of all-cause mortality in this study sample.
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