Abstract
Analysis of R wave amplitude changes that occur during exercise has been proposed for the diagnosis of coronary heart disease in recent years [2,5,6–8,18–22].
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I thank Edit KOrom and Bogdán Lászlóné for assistance in the preparation of this manuscript and Sándor Pátzay and László Rigó for the statistical analysis
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Tahy, A. (1984). R Wave Response and Exercise ECG. In: Löllgen, H., Mellerowicz, H. (eds) Progress in Ergometry: Quality Control and Test Criteria. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69844-6_18
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