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Oct 2026
Cardiorespiratory fitness-normalized peak exercise systolic blood pressure decreases after cardiac rehabilitation
Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) lowers resting systolic blood pressure (SBP) and increases peak exercise SBP and peak oxygen uptake (VO₂peak), a surrogate of cardiac output and cardiorespiratory fitness. Because exercise SBP is strongly determined by exercise capacity, higher peak SBP and its increase...
P. Kanatas, L. Lauder, F. Jordan et al.
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