Open AccessResting muscle sympathetic nerve activity and peak oxygen uptake in heart failure and normal subjects
Author(s) -
Catherine F. Notarius
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
european heart journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.336
H-Index - 293
eISSN - 1522-9645
pISSN - 0195-668X
DOI - 10.1053/euhj.1998.1447
Subject(s) - medicine , heart failure , efferent , cardiology , exercise intolerance , oxygen , vo2 max , anesthesia , heart rate , afferent , blood pressure , chemistry , organic chemistry
Exercise intolerance and increased efferent vasoconstrictor traffic to muscle are two characteristics of heart failure that have not been explicitly linked. We tested the hypothesis that peak oxygen consumption is inversely related to resting muscle sympathetic nerve activity in heart failure.
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