Treadmill exercise testing in a middle-aged Jerusalem population sample. The Jerusalem Lipid Research Clinic Prevalence Study.

摘要: We studied determinants of the exercising physical capacity 1,640 subjects (1,043 men and 597 women) using Bruce protocol as modified by Sheffield. These participants represented a sample parents 17-year-old adolescents living in Jerusalem. Apparently healthy underwent graded treadmill exercise test (88% 87% women). Exercise was terminated when subject achieved heart rate 85 to 90% predicted maximal or could not continue for other reasons, mainly fatigue weakness. performance assessed according time on treadmill. On univariate analysis, duration related both sexes age, country origin, reported exercise, resting rate, systolic diastolic blood pressure, body mass index plasma lipids lipoproteins. In multivariate index, habitual women, pressure only. Cigarette smoking lipid levels were independently either sex. Ethnic differences observed.