Cardiorespiratory Fitness (Peak Oxygen Uptake): Safe and Effective Measure for Cardiovascular Screening Before Kidney Transplant - Concepedia

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Cardiorespiratory Fitness (Peak Oxygen Uptake): Safe and Effective Measure for Cardiovascular Screening Before Kidney Transplant

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2018

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Harini A. Chakkera, Siddhartha S. Angadi, Raymond L. Heilman, Bruce Kaplan, Robert L. Scott, Harini Bollempalli, Stewart A. Stephen, Hasan Khamash, Janna L. Huskey, Girish Mour,

Journal of the American Heart Association

Abstract

We conclude that incorporating an objective measure of cardiorespiratory fitness with VO<sub>2peak</sub> is safe and allows for a cost savings in the cardiovascular screening protocol among higher-risk phenotype (with diabetes mellitus and >50 years of age) being evaluated for kidney transplant.

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