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Delayed systolic blood pressure recovery after graded exercise

An independent correlate of angiographic coronary disease

^a George M. and Linda H. Kauffman Center for Heart Failure, Department of Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

View larger version (19K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Systolic blood pressures at rest, peak exercise, 1 min of recovery and 3 min of recovery according angiographic severity of coronary disease. Severe coronary disease is left main, three-vessel or two-vessel with proximal left anterior descending disease. Mild coronary disease refers to any coronary disease (>50% stenosis) in the absence of severe disease.

View larger version (19K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Proportions of patients with any and severe angiographic CAD according to exercise and recovery systolic blood pressure ratios. Definitions of normal and abnormal values are provided in the text.