Do oscillatory breathing and exercise gas exchange abnormalities prognosticate early mortality and morbidity in heart failure?
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing parameters are powerful prognosticators of early mortality and morbidity in patients with CHF, especially the optimal 2-predictor model of a combination of elevated lowest .VE/.VCO(2) and OB.
In men, MBG increases with 24-h ABP, and similar to Dahl salt-sensitive rats, 4 weeks of high-salt induced MBG response is accompanied by marked salt sensitivity. However, these patterns seem to be sex-specific and are not observed in women.