Exercise and heart failure. Relation of the severity of the disease to the anaerobic threshold and the respiratory compensation point

OBJECTIVE - To identify, the anaerobic threshold and respiratory compensation point in patients with heart failure. METHODS - The study comprised 42 Men,divided according to the functional class (FC) as follows: group I (GI) - 15 patients in FC I; group II (GII) - 15 patients in FC II; and group III...

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Main Authors: Guilherme Veiga Guimarães, Giovanni Bellotti, Mauricio Wajngarten, Luzimar Teixeira, José Franchini Ramires, Edimar Alcides Bocchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC) 1999-10-01
Series:Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0066-782X1999001000002