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Skeletal muscle phenotype is associated with exercise tolerance in patients with peripheral arterial disease.
Journal of vascular surgery - 1 May 2005
Askew Christopher D, Green Simon, Walker Philip J, Kerr Graham K, Green Anita A, Williams Andrew D, Febbraio Mark A
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OBJECTIVE: To better understand the association between skeletal muscle and exercise intolerance in peripheral arterial disease (PAD), we assessed treadmill-walking performance and gastrocnemius muscle phenotype in healthy control subjects and in patients with PAD. We hypothesized that gastrocnemius muscle characteristics would be altered in PAD compared with control subjects and that exercise tolerance in...
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