The utility of the oxygen pulse recovery as a marker of the cardiac output response to exercise in patients with chronic heart failure.

Rudolph Ferdinand SpeeVictor M NiemeijerCarlijn G E ThijssenAdwin HoogeveenPieter F F WijnPieter A DoevendansHareld M C Kemps

Published in: Clinical physiology and functional imaging (2020)

An impaired OP recovery is associated with a reduced CO response to exercise and worse functional status. Therefore, the OP recovery can be used to grade the severity of CHF.

Keyphrases

high intensity
physical activity
resistance training
left ventricular
heart failure
ejection fraction
atrial fibrillation
body composition