The assessment of functional capacity reflects the ability to perform activities of daily living
that require sustained aerobic metabolism. The integrated efforts and health of the …

Exercise testing is often performed in persons with cardiac disease to measure their
functional capacity. Physical activity questionnaires assessing functional capacity have been …

BACKGROUND: The New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class is a subjective
estimate of a patient's functional ability based on symptoms that do not always correlate with …

The evaluation of functional capacity is an important aspect of the graded exercise test. It
provides data which may be of diagnostic and prognostic significance 1–3 as well as of …

Objectives. The goal of this study was to create a nomogram, based on maximal exercise
capacity (in metabolic equivalents [METs]) and age, for assessing a patient's ability to …

Cardiopulmonary exercise testing adds important additional information to that provided by
the standard exercise test. In particular, cardiopulmonary exercise testing provides precise …

Recent investigations suggested that clinical exercise testing can be optimized by
individualizing the protocol, depending on the purpose of the test and the subject tested …

Cardiopulmonary exercise testing adds measurement of ventilation and volume of oxygen
uptake and exhaled carbon dioxide to routine physiological and performance parameters …

Reproducibility and validity are prerequisites for a useful clinical scale. We therefore
prospectively tested the reproducibility and validity of the New York Heart Association …

BACKGROUND: A wide variety of instruments have been used to assess the functional
capabilities and health status of patients with chronic heart failure (HF), but it is not known …