[Cardiac work capacity and training load in women with coronary heart disease]

Among 1178 patients the data of 11 women with early rehabilitation after cardiac infarction, 30 women with late rehabilitation after infarction and 40 women with coronary heart disease without cardiac infarction were assembled. The women were exercised according to their ergometric and microcatheter workload tolerance. The symptom-limited maximal Watt-load increased significantly in all three groups in patients with "normal cardiac function" and "abnormal ventricular function" from admission to discharge investigation. There was no increase of workload tolerance in women with exercise-induced cardiac insufficiency. The average ergometric training load was increased significantly in patients with "normal cardiac function" and "abnormal ventricular function" in all three groups during four weeks of treatment. There was no increase of training workload in patients with exercise-induced cardiac insufficiency. Symptom-limited maximal Watt-pulse values and average absolute training workload values of the three groups differed by a quarter to a third from the values of comparable male groups. The relative bodyweight-related Watt-exercise values showed no differences between females and males.