A noninvasive method for measuring and evaluating cardiac reserve of athletes.
- Author:
Guochuan LIU
1
;
Tian XUELONG
;
Xiao SHOUZHONG
;
Xuelong TIAN
;
Li TING
Author Information
1. College of Bioengineering, Key Lab for Biomechanics & Tissue Engineering, State Ministry of Education, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Adolescent;
Adult;
Exercise Test;
methods;
Feasibility Studies;
Humans;
Myocardial Contraction;
physiology;
Phonocardiography;
methods;
Sports;
physiology
- From:
Journal of Biomedical Engineering
2003;20(4):668-670
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Phonocardiogram exercise testing(PCGET) is a recently developed method for evaluating cardiac contractility and the cardiac reserve of patients with heart disease and of healthy subjects. In order to test the reliability of PCGET method in physical sport, the present author conducted a clinical study. The ratio of the amplitude of the first heart sound after PCGET to that recorded at rest was defined as an indicator, i.e. cardiac contractility reserve index (CCRI). PCGET was performed on 30 athletes and 30 non-athletes. The results showed that the average of CCRI was 10.139 +/- 2.631 in 30 athletes and 6.612 +/- 3.104 in 30 non-athletes. There was a significant difference between CCRI of the two groups (P < 0.01). Thus, PCGET might be a noninvasive, convenient and inexpensive technique to evaluate the cardiac reserve quantitatively for athletes.
