Peak Oxygen Consumption as a Predictor of Death in Patients With Heart Failure Receiving β-Blockers
- 10 May 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Circulation
- Vol. 111 (18), 2313-2318
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.0000164270.72123.18
Abstract
Background— Peak oxygen uptake (peak V̇o2) is a strong predictor of mortality and is commonly used in the evaluation of patients for cardiac transplantation. β-Blockers reduce mortality in patients...This publication has 24 references indexed in Scilit:
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