Quantification and physiological significance of the rightward shift of the V-slope during incremental cardiopulmonary exercise testing

• Main Authors: Hirotaka Nishijima (Author), Kazuo Kondo (Author), Kazuya Yonezawa (Author), Hiroki Hashimoto (Author), Masayuki Sakurai (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Ventilatory anaerobic threshold (VAT) is frequently used as a measure of exercise tolerance, with the V-slope method being the standard; however, this needs to be visually determined. Over the years, we have observed that the V-slope itself often appears to shift rightward before...