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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Card Fail. 2017 Sep 12;24(2):65–73. doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2017.09.004

Table 3.

Responses to incremental exercise.

Placebo Nitrate
OUES (L/log L) 2.73 ± 0.39 2.77 ± 0.39
Ve/VCO2 slope (L/L) 25.6 ± 1.9 24.6 ± 2.5
VT (L/min) 1.42 ± 0.15 1.49 ± 0.19
VT (mL.min-1.kg-1) 14.4 ± 2.1 14.9 ± 1.8
VT (% of VO2peak) 66.1 ± 3.7 64.1 ± 2.5
Peak respiratory exchange ratio 1.05 ± 0.03 1.05 ± 0.02
Peak heart rate (bts/min) 134 ± 6 139 ± 7
Peak systolic blood pressure (mmHg) 158 ± 8 155 ± 10
Peak diastolic blood pressure (mmHg) 90 ± 11 82 ± 6
Peak power (W) 154 ± 14 160 ± 14*
Peak power (Wkg) 1.53 ± 0.24 1.57 ± 0.23*
VO2peak (L/min) 2.42 ± 0.34 2.60 ± 0.35*

Values are mean±S.E. for n=8. OUES, oxygen uptake efficiency slope (Ref. 4). Ve, ventilation. VCO2, carbon dioxide production. VT, ventilatory threshold (Ref. 6). VO2peak, peak oxygen uptake.

*

P<0.05 vs. Placebo.