While aerobic exercise testing is well recognized in clinical practice, there lacks a full appreciation for the value of the information it provides. Current vital signs are all obtained at rest and ...

ALTHOUGH various observers had made attempts to measure the respiratory capacity of the human body, the real pioneer work in spirometry was done about eighty years ago by John Hutchinson. Hutchinson ...

In the reports on vital capacity in the literature, instructions to the patients were not described in detail. In our experience variations in the results of serial determinations were traced in many ...

Exercise HR Insight into cardiac exercise response: cardiac output = heart rate × stroke volume; lower at a given submaximal workload in fitter individuals and those without cardiac dysfunction ...