Published in Am J Med on December 15, 2004
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The joint impact of smoking and exercise capacity on clinical outcomes among women with suspected myocardial ischemia: the WISE study. J Womens Health (Larchmt) (2009) 0.75
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Comparison of the chronotropic response to exercise and heart rate recovery in predicting cardiovascular mortality. Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil (2007) 1.26
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A cardiopulmonary exercise testing score for predicting outcomes in patients with heart failure. Am Heart J (2008) 1.18
Prognostic Significance of Quantitative QRS Duration. Am J Med (2006) 1.16
Prognostic significance of PVCs and resting heart rate. Ann Noninvasive Electrocardiol (2007) 1.16
Determining the preferred percent-predicted equation for peak oxygen consumption in patients with heart failure. Circ Heart Fail (2009) 1.13
Interpretation of the electrocardiogram of young athletes. Circulation (2011) 1.10
The blood pressure response to dynamic exercise testing: a systematic review. Prog Cardiovasc Dis (2008) 1.09
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Effects of bisoprolol fumarate on left ventricular size, function, and exercise capacity in patients with heart failure: analysis with magnetic resonance myocardial tagging. Am Heart J (2002) 0.92
Patterns of gene expression in a rabbit partial anterior cruciate ligament transection model: the potential role of mechanical forces. Am J Sports Med (2009) 0.91
Abnormal electrocardiographic findings in athletes: recognising changes suggestive of cardiomyopathy. Br J Sports Med (2013) 0.90
The partial pressure of resting end-tidal carbon dioxide predicts major cardiac events in patients with systolic heart failure. Am Heart J (2008) 0.89
Prognostic value of timing and duration characteristics of exercise oscillatory ventilation in patients with heart failure. J Heart Lung Transplant (2008) 0.88
Abnormal heart-rate recovery after exercise. Lancet (2002) 0.88
Single-institute phase I/II trial of alternating chemoradiotherapy with 5-FU and nedaplatin for esophageal carcinoma. Anticancer Res (2006) 0.87
Relation of the prognostic value of ventilatory efficiency to body mass index in patients with heart failure. Am J Cardiol (2007) 0.87
Influence of etiology of heart failure on the obesity paradox. Am J Cardiol (2009) 0.87
Addition of the electrocardiogram to the preparticipation examination of college athletes. Clin J Sport Med (2010) 0.86
Diagnosing coronary artery disease in diabetic patients. Diabetes Metab Res Rev (2002) 0.86
Hypermetropia as a presentation of diffuse choroidal haemangioma in sturge-weber syndrome. J Coll Physicians Surg Pak (2012) 0.86
Semantic confusion: the case of early repolarization and the J point. Am J Med (2012) 0.86
Abnormal electrocardiographic findings in athletes: recognising changes suggestive of primary electrical disease. Br J Sports Med (2013) 0.86
Comparison of treadmill scores with physician estimates of diagnosis and prognosis in patients with coronary artery disease. Am Heart J (2002) 0.85
Evaluation of a specific activity questionnaire to predict mortality in men referred for exercise testing. Am Heart J (2006) 0.85
Phase I trial of weekly docetaxel and concurrent radiotherapy for head and neck cancer in elderly patients or patients with complications. Jpn J Clin Oncol (2005) 0.84
Species-dependence of the redox potential of the primary quinone electron acceptor QA in photosystem II verified by spectroelectrochemistry. FEBS Lett (2010) 0.84
Angiotensin-converting enzyme genotype predicts cardiac and autonomic responses to prolonged exercise. J Am Coll Cardiol (2006) 0.84
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing is equally prognostic in young, middle-aged and older individuals diagnosed with heart failure. Int J Cardiol (2010) 0.83
Prevalence and prognostic value of exercise-induced ventricular arrhythmias. Am Heart J (2003) 0.83
What percent luminal stenosis should be used to define angiographic coronary artery disease for noninvasive test evaluation? Ann Noninvasive Electrocardiol (2002) 0.83
A scoping review of spatial cluster analysis techniques for point-event data. Geospat Health (2013) 0.82
Cardiopulmonary and noninvasive hemodynamic responses to exercise predict outcomes in heart failure. J Card Fail (2013) 0.82
Exercise testing scores as an example of better decisions through science. Med Sci Sports Exerc (2002) 0.82
Prevalence and prognostic significance of exercise-induced right bundle branch block. Am J Cardiol (2010) 0.82
The prognostic value of ventilatory efficiency with beta-blocker therapy in heart failure. Med Sci Sports Exerc (2007) 0.82
T-wave abnormalities are a better predictor of cardiovascular mortality than ST depression on the resting electrocardiogram. Ann Noninvasive Electrocardiol (2005) 0.81
Prognostic usefulness of dyspnea versus fatigue as reason for exercise test termination in patients with heart failure. Am J Cardiol (2008) 0.81
Characterizing differences in mortality at the low end of the fitness spectrum in individuals with cardiovascular disease. Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil (2010) 0.81
The added prognostic value of ventilatory efficiency to the Weber classification system in patients with heart failure. Int J Cardiol (2007) 0.81
The ventilatory classification system effectively predicts hospitalization in patients with heart failure. J Cardiopulm Rehabil Prev (2008) 0.80
Influence of heart failure etiology on the prognostic value of peak oxygen consumption and minute ventilation/carbon dioxide production slope. Chest (2005) 0.80
Early repolarization redux: the devil is in the methods. Ann Noninvasive Electrocardiol (2012) 0.80
Prognostic significance of the oxygen uptake efficiency slope: percent-predicted versus actual value. Am J Cardiol (2010) 0.80
Does peak oxygen pulse complement peak oxygen uptake in risk stratifying patients with heart failure? Am J Cardiol (2009) 0.80
A simplified clinical electrocardiogram score for the prediction of cardiovascular mortality. Clin Cardiol (2009) 0.79
Defining the optimal prognostic window for cardiopulmonary exercise testing in patients with heart failure. Circ Heart Fail (2010) 0.79
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Prognostic implications of Q waves and T-wave inversion associated with early repolarization. Mayo Clin Proc (2012) 0.79
Is there a better way to predict death using heart rate recovery? Clin Cardiol (2006) 0.78
Prognostic characteristics of heart rate recovery according to sex in patients with heart failure. Int J Cardiol (2009) 0.78
Exercise-induced left bundle branch block: prevalence and prognosis. Arq Bras Cardiol (2011) 0.77
Effects of exercise training on left ventricular function evaluated by the Tei index in patients with myocardial infarction. Circ J (2005) 0.77
Subclinical atherosclerosis in subjects with family history of premature coronary artery disease. Am Heart J (2008) 0.77
Treadmill scores in elderly men. J Am Coll Cardiol (2004) 0.77
Prognostic value of myocardial perfusion SPECT images in combination with the maximal heart rate at exercise testing in Japanese patients with suspected ischemic heart disease: a sub-analysis of J-ACCESS. Ann Nucl Med (2009) 0.76
Sudden cardiac death in athletes: big trouble, not so little Asia. Asian J Sports Med (2011) 0.76
Clinical significance of awake oscillatory ventilation in patients with heart failure and effects of open-heart surgery. Clin Cardiol (2010) 0.76
Systematic Comparison of Digital Electrocardiograms From Healthy Athletes and Patients With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. J Am Coll Cardiol (2015) 0.76
Exercise-induced ventricular arrhythmias and cardiovascular death. Ann Noninvasive Electrocardiol (2005) 0.76
The influence of body mass index on the oxygen uptake efficiency slope in patients with heart failure. Int J Cardiol (2008) 0.75
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