Table 5.

Cardiovascular function during constant-load exercise correcting for differences in peak power

	All	Male	Female	p-value
Moderate
VO2 (mL/min)/Watt	16.24 ± 2.00	15.96 ± 2.01	16.5 ± 1.99	0.26
VO2 (mL/kg/min)/Watt	0.23 ± 0.05	0.20 ± 0.03	0.26 ± 0.05	<0.01
Q (L/min)/Watt	0.14 ± 0.02	0.13 ± 0.02	0.15 ± 0.03	<0.01
SV (mL)/Watt	1.0 ± 0.18	1.05 ± 0.13	1.14 ± 0.21	<0.01
HR (bts/min)/Watt	1.77 ± 0.65	1.34 ± 0.38	2.18 ± 0.58	<0.01
AVO2 Difference (mL O2/100 mL blood)/Watt	0.19 ± 0.23	0.19 ± 0.34	0.18 ± 0.04	<0.01
Vigorous
VO2 (mL/min)/Watt	13.75 ± 0.94	13.85 ± 0.84	13.65 ± 1.03	0.4
VO2 (mL/kg/min)/Watt	0.20 ± 0.04	0.17 ± 0.02	0.22 ± 0.04	<0.01
Q (L/min)/Watt	0.10 ± 0.01	0.09 ± 0.01	0.10 ± 0.01	<0.01
SV (mL)/Watt	0.55 ± 0.08	0.52 ± 0.06	0.57 ± 0.09	<0.01
HR (bts/min)/Watt	1.24 ± 0.40	0.95 ± 0.25	1.50 ± 0.38	<0.01
AVO2 Difference (mL O2/100 mL blood)/Watt	0.10 ± 0.03	0.08 ± 0.02	0.11 ± 0.02	<0.01

See Table 2 for acronyms explained.