Rate-Response Programming Tailored to the Force-Frequency Relationship Improves Exercise Tolerance in Chronic Heart Failure

Abstract

A personalized approach to rate-response programming, determined using a reproducible noninvasive method for assessing the FFR, improves exercise time in patients with CHF and pacemaker devices. (Bowditch Revisited: Defining the Optimum Heart Rate Range in Chronic Heart Failure; NCT02563873).