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To the Editor: The report by Gulati et al. (Aug. 4 issue)¹and the accompanying editorial by Kraus and Douglas² claim that the nomogram for predicting exercise capacity in women according to age and level of metabolic equivalents (MET) is unique. However, an article by Bruce et al.³ (cited in the report by Gulati et al.) involved the use of age and exercise duration to provide nomographic assessments of functional aerobic impairment for men and women separately. The percentage of age-predicted normal exercise capacity equals 100 percent minus functional aerobic impairment. Bruce and colleagues provided nomograms for use in calculating . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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