• J. Card. Fail. · Oct 2010

    Multicenter Study Clinical Trial

    Development of a cardiopulmonary exercise prognostic score for optimizing risk stratification in heart failure: the (P)e(R)i(O)dic (B)reathing during (E)xercise (PROBE) study.

    • Marco Guazzi, Patrizia Boracchi, Ross Arena, Jonathan Myers, Marco Vicenzi, Mary Ann Peberdy, Daniel Bensimhon, Paul Chase, and Giuseppe Reina.
    • Cardiopulmonary Unit, University of Milano, Milano, Italy. marco.guazzi@unimi.it
    • J. Card. Fail. 2010 Oct 1; 16 (10): 799-805.

    BackgroundCardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) provides powerful information on risk of death in heart failure (HF). We sought to define the relative and additive contribution of the 3 landmark (CPET) prognostic markers--peak oxygen consumption (VO₂), minute ventilation/carbon dioxide production (VE/VCO₂) slope, and exercise periodic breathing (EPB)-to the overall risk of cardiac death and to develop a prognostic score for optimizing risk stratification in HF patients.Methods And ResultsA total of 695 stable HF patients (average LVEF: 25 ± 8%) underwent a symptom-limited CPET maximum test after familiarization and were prospectively tracked for cardiac mortality. At multivariable Cox analysis EPB emerged as the strongest prognosticator. Using a statistical bootstrap technique (5000 data resamplings), point estimates, and 95% confidence intervals were obtained. Thirty-two configurations were adopted to classify patients into a given cell, according to EPB presence or absence and values of the 2 other covariates. Configurations without EPB and with VE/VCO₂ slope ≤30 were not significantly different from 0 (reference value). Statistical power of configurations increased with higher VE/VCO₂ slope and lower peak VO₂. This prompted us to formulate a score including EPB as a discriminating variable, the (P)e(R)i(O)dic (B)reathing during (E)xercise (PROBE), which ranges between -1 and 1, with zero as reference configuration, that would help to optimize the prognostic accuracy of CPET-derived variables. The greatest PROBE score impact was provided by EPB, followed by VE/VCO₂ slope, whereas peak VO₂ added minimal prognostic power.ConclusionsEPB with an elevated VE/VCO₂ slope leads to the highest and most precise PROBE score, whereas no additional risk information emerges when EPB is present with a peak VO₂ ≤10 mL O₂·kg⁻¹·min⁻¹. PROBE score appears to provide a step forward for optimizing CPET use in HF prognostic definition.Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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