Clinician's Guide to cardiopulmonary exercise testing in adults: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association.

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Published in Circulation on June 28, 2010

Authors

Gary J Balady, Ross Arena, Kathy Sietsema, Jonathan Myers, Lola Coke, Gerald F Fletcher, Daniel Forman, Barry Franklin, Marco Guazzi, Martha Gulati, Steven J Keteyian, Carl J Lavie, Richard Macko, Donna Mancini, Richard V Milani, American Heart Association Exercise, Cardiac Rehabilitation, and Prevention Committee of the Council on Clinical Cardiology, Council on Epidemiology and Prevention, Council on Peripheral Vascular Disease, Interdisciplinary Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research

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