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Patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) have limited exercise capacity. Exercise intolerance in CHF is associated with increased mortality; 1 moreover, several studies suggest that interventions that increase exercise capacity in CHF improve prognosis. 2–4 Therefore, as Kemps and colleagues state in this issue of the Netherlands Heart Journal, 5 exercise testing is an important tool for evaluating and monitoring heart failure.
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Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
C.A. Swenne Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, PO Box 9600, 2300 Leiden, the Netherlands
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Gademan, M.G.J., van der Laarse, A., Swenne, C.A. et al. Oxygen uptake in heart failure: how much, how fast?. NHJL 17, 224–225 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03086251
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