Journal article
Comparison of Cardiovascular Risk in Maximal Isometric and Dynamic Exercise
Southern medical journal (Birmingham, Ala.), Vol.76(4), pp.464-467
04/1983
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-198304000-00012
PMID: 6836361
Abstract
With the hypothesis that isometric exercise testing offers important clinical information yet is neglected because of overemphasis on its risk, we compared it with dynamic testing for variables indicative of myocardial ischemia. In a medical office, 287 patients were each subjected once to both a one-minute maximal handgrip stress test and maximal treadmill test while monitored noninvasively for cardiovascular responses. Systolic blood pressures usually increased more with the treadmill test, diastolic more with the handgrip. The treadmill tests caused greater mean heart rate and rate-pressure products, as well as more ST segment displacements, arrhythmias, and symptoms and signs. However, there were some unpredictable individual differences in the isometric blood pressure responses. Isometric testing is easy and useful and, if properly monitored, causes less risk to the patient than dynamic testing.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Comparison of Cardiovascular Risk in Maximal Isometric and Dynamic Exercise
- Creators
- Robert H. Chaney - University of Notre DameStephan Arndt - University of Notre Dame
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Southern medical journal (Birmingham, Ala.), Vol.76(4), pp.464-467
- DOI
- 10.1097/00007611-198304000-00012
- PMID
- 6836361
- NLM abbreviation
- South Med J
- ISSN
- 0038-4348
- eISSN
- 1541-8243
- Number of pages
- 4
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/1983
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Biostatistics; Nursing; Injury Prevention Research Center
- Record Identifier
- 9985132077902771
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