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J Cardiopulm Rehabil Prev
March 2024
School of Kinesiology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada (Mr Faricier, Ms Keltz, and Dr Keir); Lawson Health Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada (Messrs Faricier and Hartley, Ms Keltz, and Drs Suskin, Prior, and Keir); Cardiac Rehabilitation and Secondary Prevention Program, St Joseph's Health Care, London, Ontario, Canada (Mr Hartley and Drs McKelvie, Suskin, and Prior); Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada (Drs McKelvie and Suskin); and Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Dr Keir).
Purpose: Improving aerobic fitness through exercise training is recommended for the treatment of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, strong justifications for the criteria of assessing improvement in key parameters of aerobic function including estimated lactate threshold (θ LT ), respiratory compensation point (RCP), and peak oxygen uptake (V˙ o2peak ) at the individual level are not established. We applied reliable change index (RCI) statistics to determine minimal meaningful change (MMC RCI ) cutoffs of θ LT , RCP, and V˙ o2peak for individual patients with CVD.
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