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Conducting Maximal and Submaximal Endurance Exercise Testing to Measure Physiological and Biological Responses to Acute Exercise in Humans
Published on: October 17, 2018
Assessing blood pressure response to exercise: methodological issues and clinical relevance
Gianfranco Parati1, Yuqing Zhang
1aDepartment of Health Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca bDepartment of Cardiovascular, Neural and Metabolic Sciences, S.Luca Hospital, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy cDivision of Hypertension, Cardiovascular Institute and Fu Wai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) and Peking Union Medical College (PUMC), Beijing, China.
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