TY - JOUR
T1 - Prognostic applications of exercise testing
AU - Bonow, R. O.
PY - 1991/9/19
Y1 - 1991/9/19
N2 - During the past three decades, the exercise test has evolved into a method of considerable importance in the evaluation of patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease. Exercise testing aids physicians in making the diagnosis, in quantifying the functional limitation caused by the disease in individual patients, and in evaluating therapeutic effects. Exercise testing may also yield important prognostic insights. Exercise capacity, heart-rate and blood-pressure responses, and the presence and severity of symptoms and electrocardiographic evidence of inducible myocardial ischemia are among the variables that have value in risk stratification; these indexes provide additional prognostic information beyond that obtained.
AB - During the past three decades, the exercise test has evolved into a method of considerable importance in the evaluation of patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease. Exercise testing aids physicians in making the diagnosis, in quantifying the functional limitation caused by the disease in individual patients, and in evaluating therapeutic effects. Exercise testing may also yield important prognostic insights. Exercise capacity, heart-rate and blood-pressure responses, and the presence and severity of symptoms and electrocardiographic evidence of inducible myocardial ischemia are among the variables that have value in risk stratification; these indexes provide additional prognostic information beyond that obtained.
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM199109193251211
DO - 10.1056/NEJM199109193251211
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 1875976
AN - SCOPUS:0026004848
VL - 325
SP - 887
EP - 888
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
SN - 0028-4793
IS - 12
ER -