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01-06-2009 | Editorial
Oxygen uptake in heart failure: how much, how fast?
Auteurs:
M. G. J. Gademan, A. van der Laarse, C. A. Swenne, E. E. van der Wall
Gepubliceerd in:
Netherlands Heart Journal
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Uitgave 6/2009
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Abstract
Patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) have limited exercise capacity. Exercise intolerance in CHF is associated with increased mortality; 1 moreover, several studies suggest that interventions that increase exercise capacity in CHF improve prognosis. 2–4 Therefore, as Kemps and colleagues state in this issue of the Netherlands Heart Journal, 5 exercise testing is an important tool for evaluating and monitoring heart failure.