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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY
Volume 38, Issue 7, Pages 1980-1987Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(01)01652-7
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OBJECTIVES The goal of this study was to validate the prognostic value of the drop in heart rate (HR) after exercise, compare it to other test responses, evaluate its diagnostic value and clarify some of the methodologic issues surrounding its use. BACKGROUND Studies have highlighted the value of a new prognostic feature of the treadmill test-rate of recovery of HR after exercise. These studies have had differing as well as controversial results and diol not consider diagnostic test characteristics. METHODS All patients were referred for evaluation of chest pain at two university-affiliated Veterans Affairs Medical Centers who underwent treadmill tests and coronary angiography between 1987 and 1999 were determined to be dead or alive after a mean seven years of follow-up. All-cause mortality was the end point for follow-up, and coronary angiography was the diagnostic gold standard. RESULTS There were 2,193 male patients who had treadmill tests and coronary angiography, Heart rate recovery at 2 min after exercise outperformed other time points in prediction of death; a decrease of <22 beats/min had a hazard ratio of 2.6 (2.4 to 2.8 95% confidence interval). This new measurement was ranked similarly to traditional variables including age and metabolic equivalents for predicting death but failed to have diagnostic power for discriminating those who had angiographic disease. CONCLUSIONS Heart rate at 1 or 2 min of recovery has been validated as a prognostic measurement and should be recorded as part of all treadmill tests. This new measurement does not replace, but is supplemental to, established scores. (J Am Coll Cardiol 2001;38:1980-7) (C) 2001 by the American College of Cardiology.
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