TY - JOUR
T1 - Cardiopulmonary exercise testing reflects similar pathophysiology and disease severity in heart failure patients with reduced and preserved ejection fraction
AU - Guazzi, Marco
AU - Labate, Valentina
AU - Cahalin, Lawrence P.
AU - Arena, Ross
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Background: We are unaware of any previous investigation that has compared the relationship of key cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPX) variables to various measures of pathophysiology between heart failure-reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and HF-preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) cohorts that are well matched with respect to baseline characteristics and their exercise response, which is the purpose of the present study. Methods: Thirty-four patients with HFpEF were randomly matched to 34 subjects with HFrEF according to age and sex as well as peak oxygen consumption (VO2), ventilatory efficiency (VE/VCO2 slope), and exercise oscillatory ventilation (EOV). In addition to CPX, patients also underwent echocardiography with tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) and assessment of N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP). Results: When matched for age, sex, and CPX variables, the HFrEF and HFpEF cohorts had similar echocardiography with TDI and NT-proBNP values, indicating comparable disease severity. In addition, the correlations between key CPX measures (peak VO2 and VE/VCO2 slope) and echocardiography with TDI and NT-proBNP measures were similar between HFrEF and HFpEF groups. Of note, the correlation between the VE/VCO2 slope and pulmonary artery systolic pressure and NT-proBNP was highly significant in both groups (r-0.65, p
AB - Background: We are unaware of any previous investigation that has compared the relationship of key cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPX) variables to various measures of pathophysiology between heart failure-reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and HF-preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) cohorts that are well matched with respect to baseline characteristics and their exercise response, which is the purpose of the present study. Methods: Thirty-four patients with HFpEF were randomly matched to 34 subjects with HFrEF according to age and sex as well as peak oxygen consumption (VO2), ventilatory efficiency (VE/VCO2 slope), and exercise oscillatory ventilation (EOV). In addition to CPX, patients also underwent echocardiography with tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) and assessment of N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP). Results: When matched for age, sex, and CPX variables, the HFrEF and HFpEF cohorts had similar echocardiography with TDI and NT-proBNP values, indicating comparable disease severity. In addition, the correlations between key CPX measures (peak VO2 and VE/VCO2 slope) and echocardiography with TDI and NT-proBNP measures were similar between HFrEF and HFpEF groups. Of note, the correlation between the VE/VCO2 slope and pulmonary artery systolic pressure and NT-proBNP was highly significant in both groups (r-0.65, p
KW - Diastolic
KW - systolic
KW - ventilatory expired gas
KW - ventricle
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U2 - 10.1177/2047487313476962
DO - 10.1177/2047487313476962
M3 - Article
C2 - 23382540
AN - SCOPUS:84897519122
VL - 21
SP - 847
EP - 854
JO - European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
JF - European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
SN - 2047-4873
IS - 7
ER -