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- Yuqin Shen, Xiaoyu Zhang, Wenlin Ma, Haoming Song, Zhu Gong, Qiang Wang, Lin Che, Wenjun Xu, Jinfa Jiang, Jiahong Xu, Wenwen Yan, Lin Zhou, Y I Ni, Guanghe Li, Qiping Zhang, and Lemin Wang.
- Department of Cardiology, Tongji Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University, Shanghai 200065, P.R. China.
- Exp Ther Med. 2015 Apr 1; 9 (4): 1407-1412.
AbstractThe minute ventilation/carbon dioxide production (VE/VCO2) slope has been widely demonstrated to have strong prognostic value in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF), and the risk of mortality is believed to increase when the VE/VCO2 slope is >32.8; however, there is little evidence concerning the prognostic value of the VE/VCO2 slope in Chinese patients. In the present study, the prognostic value of the VE/VCO2 slope was investigated in patients with CHF. A total of 258 subjects underwent symptom-limited cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) and were divided into CHF (113 males and 16 females; LVEF <0.49) and control (106 males and 23 females) groups. The cardiac-related events over a median 33.7-month follow-up period subsequent to the CPET were evaluated using receiver operating characteristic curve analysis. The VE/VCO2 slope was significantly different between the CHF and control groups (P<0.001). The area under the curve (AUC) for the VE/VCO2 slope in predicting cardiac-related mortalities in the patients with CHF was 0.670 (P<0.05), and the sensitivity and specificity of the VE/VCO2 slope were 0.667 and 0.620, respectively. The optimal threshold of the VE/VCO2 slope for predicting cardiac-related mortalities in patients with CHF was ≥39.3. The AUC for the VE/VCO2 slope in predicting cardiac-related hospitalizations in patients with CHF was 0.682 (P<0.05), and the sensitivity and specificity of the VE/VCO2 slope were 0.631 and 0.778, respectively. The optimal threshold of the VE/VCO2 slope for predicting cardiac-related hospitalizations in patients with CHF was ≥32.9. In conclusion, ventilatory efficiency decreases in patients with CHF. The VE/VCO2 slope is a strong predictor of cardiac-related mortalities in the patients with CHF analyzed.
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