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Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems, Cardiovascular System & Cardiology, Cardiopulmonary exercise testing, reference values, oxygen uptake efficiency slope, healthy, adults, CARDIORESPIRATORY FUNCTIONAL RESERVE, CHRONIC HEART-FAILURE, MINUTE VENTILATION, EXERCISE, FITNESS, CHILDREN, DISEASE, REPRODUCIBILITY, PHYSIOLOGY, CAPACITY, Adult, Age Factors, Bicycling, Body Surface Area, Cross-Sectional Studies, Exercise Test, Female, Healthy Volunteers, Humans, Linear Models, Male, Middle Aged, Multivariate Analysis, Muscle Contraction, Muscle Fatigue, Muscle, Skeletal, Oxygen Consumption, Predictive Value of Tests, Reference Values, Reproducibility of Results, Sex Factors, Time Factors, White People, Young Adult, 1102 Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology, 1103 Clinical Sciences, 3201 Cardiovascular medicine and haematology

Abstract:

The oxygen uptake efficiency slope (OUES) has been proposed as an independent, reproducible and objective measure of cardiorespiratory function that does not require maximal exercise testing. Existing reference values have been published for healthy paediatric populations and healthy elderly. However, reference ranges and equations for healthy adults of working age are insufficiently documented. The aim of the present study was to establish prediction equations and to describe reference values for healthy men and women aged 20-60 years.