Original scientific paper

Functional heart capacity and some risk factors

B. Čerić ; Institut za medicinska istraživanja i medicinu rada, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Z. Pišl ; Institut za medicinska istraživanja i medicinu rada, Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

A population sample consisting of 180 persons aged 35-54 years was examined in 1969 and followed up over a period of 15 years. According to blood pressure values and sex they were grouped into persistently hypertensive, periodically hypertensive and normotensive subjects which served as controls. Functional heart capacity was measured using the Bruce protocol twice in a four-year interval. The persistently hypertensive subjects as compared to the other groups had significantly reduced functional heart capacity. Some other risk factors were also involved. such as excessive body weight and elevated blood· concentrations of lipoproteins and uric acid. To what extent a particular risk factor contributed to impairing functional heart capacity could not be ascertained folly. It is emphasized that among risk factors arterial hypertension plays a major role in the etiology of cardiac impairment.

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Hrčak ID:

153281

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/153281

Publication date:

8.10.1987.

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