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To the Editor: Myers et al. (March 14 issue)¹ report that in their study, exercise capacity was a stronger predictor of mortality than other established risk factors, after adjustment for several clinical variables. In an earlier article in the Journal, Cole et al. stressed the importance of recovery of the heart rate after exercise; in an analysis adjusted for many confounding variables, a low value for heart-rate recovery, defined as a reduction of 12 beats per minute or less from the heart rate at peak exercise (symptom-limited), was predictive of death from all causes (adjusted relative risk, 2.0; P<0.001).² The . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Recovery of Heart Rate after Exercise
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N Engl J Med 2000; 342:662-663, Mar 2, 2000. Correspondence

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