. 2019 Jun 24;11:10. doi: 10.1186/s13102-019-0122-z

Table 4.

Cardiopulmonary exercise and derived variables of population B (submaximal exercise: before/after cardiac rehabilitation)

	Before	After	p-Value
Body weight, kg	66.1 ± 10.9	66.7 ± 10.9	0.008
Highest work rate, W^a	66 ± 20	82 ± 24	< 0.001
Ramp exercise duration, s	360 ± 107	438 ± 121	< 0.001
Highest Borg scale^a, /20	14.1 ± 1.7	14.7 ± 1.9	< 0.001
Highest HR^a, beats/min	109 ± 18	116 ± 18	< 0.001
Highest VO₂^a, mL/min	971 ± 285	1146 ± 341	< 0.001
Highest VO₂^a, mL/min/kg	14.6 ± 3.4	17.0 ± 4.0	< 0.001
Highest R^a	1.06 ± 0.10	1.09 ± 0.11	< 0.001
vVAT, mL/min	673 ± 191	734 ± 226	< 0.001
vVAT, mL/min/kg	10.1 ± 2.4	10.8 ± 2.8	< 0.001
expVAT (VCO₂), mL/min	641 ± 185	685 ± 201	< 0.001
expVAT (VCO₂), mL/min/kg	9.6 ± 2.3	10.2 ± 2.4	< 0.001
Exponential coefficient, “a”	1.0018 ± 0.0004	1.0017 ± 0.0004	0.001
expVAT (VE), mL/min	696 ± 182	727 ± 209	0.008
expVAT (VE), mL/min/kg	10.6 ± 2.7	10.9 ± 2.7	0.074
Exponential coefficient, “a”	1.0015 ± 0.0004	1.0014 ± 0.0004	0.011
OUES (VCO₂), mL/min	1306 ± 327	1385 ± 355	< 0.001
OUES (VE), mL/min	1513 ± 398	1610 ± 467	< 0.001

^aAs the exercise protocol was submaximal, the last value was simply designated as the highest value (see the “CPX” subsection in Methods). Abbreviations are the same as in Table 2