Publications by authors named "Karina A Gonzalez Carta"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to identify causes of death and the prevalence of non-cardiovascular (non-CV) deaths in a group of patients referred for exercise testing, and to see if exercise test results could predict these deaths.
- Over a follow-up period, 849 out of 13,382 patients died, with 80.9% of those deaths categorized as non-CV, meaning exercise test results did have predictive value for both CV and non-CV mortality.
- Key findings indicated that low functional aerobic capacity, poor heart rate recovery, and a low chronotropic index significantly increased the risk of non-CV deaths, while overall, exercise test abnormalities were more strongly linked to CV deaths.
Smoking is a strong risk factor for cardiovascular (CV) disease and mortality, but quitting may cause weight gain and increase the risk of co-morbidities. Our aim was to investigate the effect of smoking and exercise on weight-associated co-morbidities and mortality. We included Minnesota residents without baseline CV disease who underwent exercise testing from 1993 to 2010.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: A decrease in diastolic blood pressure (DBP) with exercise is considered normal, but the significance of an increase in DBP has not been validated. Our aim was to determine the relationship of DBP increasing on a stress test regarding comorbidities and mortality.
Methods: Our database was reviewed from 1993 to 2010 using the first stress test of a patient.
Background: Heart rate (HR) recovery has been investigated in specific patient cohorts, but there is less information about the role of HR recovery in general populations. We investigated whether HR recovery has long-term prognostic significance in primary prevention.
Methods And Results: Exercise tests performed between 1993 and 2010 on patients aged 30 to 79 years without cardiovascular disease were included.