Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing and Cardiovascular Health
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: April 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780879937003
Subjects: Cardiovascular medicine; Pathophysiology; Heart failure; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Cardiology; Medical / Cardiology; Exercise tests; Cardiopulmonary system; Pulmonary gas exchange
First sentence: To perform exercise, chemical energy in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) must be continuously regenerated in the muscles by mitochondrial respiration (O2 consumption and CO2 production).