Exercise Capacity and Mortality among Men Referred for Exercise Testing

Exercise capacity is known to be an important prognostic factor in patients with cardiovascular disease, but it is uncertain whether it predicts mortality equally well among healthy persons. There is also uncertainty regarding the predictive power of exercise capacity relative to other clinical and exercise-test variables.We studied a total of 6213 consecutive men referred for treadmill exercise testing for clinical reasons during a mean (+/-SD)...