Nomogram based on metabolic equivalents and age for assessing aerobic exercise capacity in men.

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 perform dynamic exercise to quantify the level of physical disability or relative capacity for physical activity.

Background: Providing an estimation of exercise capacity relative to age is clinically useful. Such an estimate can be derived from measured or estimated maximal oxygen uptake (in METs) from treadmill exercise testing and age.

Prediction of cardiovascular death by means of clinical and exercise test variables in patients selected for cardiac catheterization.

The objective of this report is the development of a population-specific prediction rule based on clinical and exercise test data that would estimate the risk of cardiovascular death in patients selected for cardiac catheterization. Prospective data and follow-up information were obtained from patients who underwent cardiac catheterization soon after clinical assessment and exercise testing. Males (n = 588) referred for evaluation of coronary heart disease from 1984 to 1990 were selected after exclusion of patients with significant valvular heart disease and patients with prior cardiac surgery.

Prediction of cardiovascular death in men undergoing noninvasive evaluation for coronary artery disease.

Objective: To develop prediction rules from clinical and exercise test data identifying patients at high and low risk for cardiovascular events among a group of male veterans.

Design: Prognostic study with prospective gathering of data and routine follow-up of consecutive patients referred for exercise testing. Patients only underwent noninvasive evaluation for coronary artery disease.

The prognostic value of exercise capacity: a review of the literature.

While there is still much debate in the literature regarding the specific MET levels at which there are differences in survival, the following points have become clear with the growing body of reports in the literature. Exercise capacity seems to be an independent predictor of mortality, and when it is combined with other clinical, exercise, or angiographic data, it becomes very powerful in this regard. This relates to both overall mortality and to that from cardiovascular disease.