Published online before print
July 16, 2007, 10.1097/PSY.0b013e3180cabc73
Mental Stress Hemodynamic Responses and Myocardial Ischemia: Does Left Ventricular Dysfunction Alter These Relationships?
Sari D. Holmes, MS,
David S. Krantz, PhD,
Willem J. Kop, PhD,
Albert Del Negro, MD,
Pamela Karasik, MD and
John S. Gottdiener, MD, FACC
From the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (S.D.H., D.S.K.), Bethesda, Maryland; University of Maryland Medical Center (W.J.K., J.S.G.), Baltimore, Maryland; Veterans Affairs Medical Center (P.K.), Washington, DC; and Arrhythmia Associates and INOVA Fairfax Hospital (A.D.N.), Fairfax, Virginia.

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Figure 1. Hemodynamic responses to rest, mental stress, and exercise across left ventricular function groups (mean ± SD); heart rate expressed as beats/min; systolic and diastolic blood pressures expressed as mm Hg)
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