Heart Rhythm
Volume 4, Issue 8 , Pages 1024-1028, August 2007

The effect of atrial-based pacing on exercise capacity as measured by the 6-minute walk test: A substudy of the Canadian Trial of Physiological Pacing (CTOPP)

  • Adrian Baranchuk, MD

      Affiliations

    • Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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  • Jeff S. Healey, MD

      Affiliations

    • The Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    • Dr. Healey is supported by a fellowship grant from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and Astra-Zeneca Canada Ltd.
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Jeff S. Healey, McMaster University, 237 Barton Street East, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8L 2X2.
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  • Kevin E. Thorpe, MMath

      Affiliations

    • University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Carlos A. Morillo, MD, FACC

      Affiliations

    • The Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Girish Nair, MD

      Affiliations

    • The Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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  • Eugene Crystal, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Charles R. Kerr, MD, FACC

      Affiliations

    • University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Stuart J. Connolly, MD, FACC

      Affiliations

    • The Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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  • CTOPP Investigators

Received 26 February 2006; accepted 31 March 2007. published online 13 April 2007.

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 This study was supported by the Medical Research Council of Canada.

PII: S1547-5271(07)00408-0

doi:10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.03.042

Heart Rhythm
Volume 4, Issue 8 , Pages 1024-1028, August 2007

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