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The exercise training workload for cardiac patients is determined from the peak heart rate achieved safely during a stress test. Circadian rhythms may play a key role in changing physiological responses to the stress test. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of the time of day on cardiopulmonary and metabolic responses in highly trained men with coronary artery disease. A group of 15 patients with coronary artery disease [53.5 (SD 6) years] performed two sessions of graded tests to exhaustion: one session was performed at 10 a.m. and the second at 5 p.m. in randomized order. Treadmill velocity was kept constant at a speed of 4.8 km · h−1 starting with an elevation of 0% which was increased thereafter by 2.5% every 3 min. At rest the results revealed that only oxygen uptake was significantly lower (P < 0.05) in the morning compared to that observed in the evening [2.9 (SD 0.4) compared to 3.5 (SD 0.5) ml O2 · kg−1 · min−1, respectively]. During exercise, differences due to time of day were found in the variables of maximal oxygen uptake which were significantly higher (P < 0.05) in the evening than in the morning [34.2 (SD 2.6) and 40.8 (SD 2.5) ml O2 · kg−1 · min−1, respectively]. These data indicated that in these well-trained coronary artery disease patients there was a significant time of day effect associated with metabolic responses following stress-testing.
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Sagiv, M., Sagiv, A., Soudry, M. et al. Influence of the time of day on physical performance in patients with coronary artery disease. Eur J Appl Physiol 71, 530–534 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00238556
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