Abstrakt
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) provides assessment of the integrative exercise responses involving the pulmonary, cardiovascular, haematopoietic, neuropsychological, and skeletal muscle systems, which are not adequately reflected through the measurement of individual organ systém function. CPET is increasingly being used in a wide spectrum of clinical applications for the evaluation of undiagnosed exercise intolerance and for the objective determination of functional capacity resting pulmonary and cardiac function testing cannot reliably predict exercise performance and functional capacity and that overal health status correlates better with exercise tolerance than with resting measurements.
In this paper the principle of CPET is describel and results for VO2max and VO2max/kg of almost 3000 measurements in subjects of different physical activity are presented regression equations for VO2max - Wmax and VO2max/kg - Wmax/kg were calculated.