Exercise cardiac output is maintained with advancing age in healthy human subjects: cardiac dilatation and increased stroke volume compensate for a diminished heart rate.

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Summary

Although aging does not limit cardiac output per se in healthy community-dwelling subjects, the hemodynamic profile accompanying exercise is altered by age and can be explained by an age-related diminution in the cardiovascular response to beta-adrenergic stimulation.

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Published
1984-02-01
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Medicine, Ejection fraction, Cardiology, Stroke volume, Internal medicine

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