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Delayed recovery of postexercise blood pressure in patients with chronic heart failure
H Kitaoka1, J Takata, T Furuno
1Department of Medicine and Geriatrics, Kochi Medical School, Oko-cho, Nankoku-shi, Japan.
The American Journal of Cardiology
|June 15, 1997
Abstract:
Thirty-four patients with idiopathic dilated and ischemic cardiomyopathy underwent a symptom-limited cardiopulmonary exercise testing to evaluate the significance of postexercise blood pressure (BP) response. The postexercise BP response was useful in assessing the impaired exercise capacity and increased sympathetic activity in patients with heart failure.