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Heart rate recovery after exercise is apredictor of mortality, independent of the angiographic severity of coronary disease

Deepak P. Vivekananthan, MD^*, Eugene H. Blackstone, MD, FACC, Claire E. Pothier, MA^* and Michael S. Lauer, MD, FACC, FAHA^*,*

^* Departments of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

View larger version (18K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Kaplan-Meier plot relating heart rate (HR) recovery and angiographic severity of coronary artery disease (CAD) to risk of death.

View larger version (21K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Association of heart rate recovery, considered as a continuous variable, with five-year predicted death rate as a function of exercise capacity. Results of parametric analyses. BPM = beats/min; METs = metabolic equivalents.