Peak oxygen intake and cardiac mortality in women referred for cardiac rehabilitation
Terence Kavanagh, MD, FACC* ,*,
Donald J. Mertens, MD, MSc*,
Larry F. Hamm, PhD*,||,
Joseph Beyene, PhD ,
Johanna Kennedy, RN*,
Paul Corey, PhD and
Roy J. Shephard, MD, PhD
* Toronto Rehabilitation Institute (formerly Toronto Rehabilitation Centre), Toronto, Canada
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Faculty of Physical Education and Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
|| George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

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Figure 1 Kaplan-Meier survival curves for cardiac and all-cause deaths.
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Figure 2 Kaplan-Meier survival curves for cardiac deaths by peak oxygen intake ( O2peak) categorized at, or above, or below 13 ml/kg/min.
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Figure 3 Kaplan-Meier survival curves for all-cause deaths by peak oxygen intake ( O2peak) categorized at, or above, or below 13 ml/kg/min.
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