Safety and characteristics of exercise testing early after acute myocardial infarction

Exercise Standards for Testing and Training

“…Symptom-limited protocols have an event rate that is 1.9 times that of submaximal tests, although the overall fatal event rate is quite low. 55,56 …”

Safety of Exercise-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Testing for Cardiac Patients in Japan

“…13, 14 In Japan, a multicenter survey on the safety of exercise testing has been reported, 15 but it was conducted approximately 20 years ago and not necessarily related to CR. Accordingly, the purpose of the present study was to present large-scale data on the safety of both exercise-based CR and exercise stress testing in Japan.…”

Assessment of Functional Capacity in Clinical and Research Settings

“…Among asymptomatic low-risk subjects tested at a single institution, Gibbons et al 45 reported only 5 major complications and 1 death among Ͼ70 000 subjects (overall event rate, 0.8 per 10 000 tests), with no complications or deaths in the most recent 45 000 subjects. Finally, in a survey of 570 institutions including 151 949 exercise tests conducted Յ4 weeks after myocardial infarction, Hamm et al 46 reported fatal, major nonfatal, and other cardiac complication event rates of 0.03%, 0.09%, and 1.4%, respectively.…”