Submaximal Exercise Testing: Clinical Application and Interpretation

Submaximal exercise testing: clinical application and interpretation.

Compared with maximal exercise testing, submaximal exercise testing appears to have greater applicability to physical therapists in their role as clinical exercise specialists. This review contrasts maximal and submaximal exercise testing. Two major categories of submaximal tests (ie, predictive and performance tests) and their relative merits are described. Predictive tests are submaximal test...

Submaximal Exercise Testing

To examine the electrocardiographic response to exercise in an older population, 280 participants in a longitudinal study of cerebrovascular disease were tested. Subjects were randomly selected from the total 50 to 69-year-old population of Birmingham, Alabama. Approximately 60% of the participants reached a heart rate more than 80% of their predicted maximal heart rate. Subjects were divided i...

Submaximal exercise testing.

To examine the electrocardiographic response to exercise in an older population, 280 participants in a longitudinal study of cerebrovascular disease were tested. Subjects were randomly selected from the total 50 to 69-year-old population of Birmingham, Alabama. Approximately 60% of the participants reached a heart rate more than 80% of their predicted maximal heart rate. Subjects were divided i...

Submaximal exercise testing early after myocardial infarction.

Sir, In the paper by Sullivan et al (1984; 52: 147-53), I was astonished to read that the ST segment elevation was the only exercise test variable predicting cardiac death in postmyocardial infarction patients. This phenomenon occurs with monotonous regularity in patients with even a minor degree of ST segment elevation in the resting 12 lead electrocardiogram soon after myocardial infarction. ...

Algorithm for interpretation of submaximal exercise tests in children