[Ergometry and the risk factors in ischemic heart disease]

The correlational connection between some factors of risk and ergometric indices in patients with ischemic heart disease was studied. The results of an examination covering 188 patients and 56 practically healthy persons which involved the use of a graded stepwise increasing loading on a veloergometer under a monitored control of the pulse rate, ECG and arterial pressure were analyzed. To the risk factors were referred hypercholesterinemia, hypertension, smoking, obesity and hypodynamia. With a rising number of risk factors a significant and progressive decline of the patients' physical performance capacity was ascertained. The most essential correlational connection between the risk factors and the maximally tolerable load and chronotropic and aerobic reserves was educed.