Exercise capacity in adult African-Americans referred for exercise stress testing: is fitness affected by race?
In an adult population of individuals who were referred for exercise stress testing, African-Americans were more obese and had significantly lower exercise capacity than their white counterparts. Emphasis on weight reduction and increasing physical fitness is particularly needed for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases in African-Americans.
Fluid resuscitation (amount, composition, timing) should be an important consideration in the utilization of experimental infection models. Furthermore, optimization of the patient's intravascular volume status during sepsis may have important effects on immune responses, in addition to improving hemodynamic variables.