Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing (CPX)
Table 2 provides the CPX main data. After the training period, the
TRAINING group showed a significant increase in exercise duration
(baseline 524±95 vs 4M 636±131 secs; P =0.001), maximum workload
achieved (baseline 126±49 vs 4M 151±65 W; P =0.007) and peak
VO2 (baseline 21.7±5.2 vs 4M 23.4±5.9 ml/kg/min;P =0.04). In the CONTROL group a significant increase in exercise
duration was found (baseline, 491±93 vs 4M, 593±93 secs;P =0.006).
At the end of the 4-month follow-up, no differences were observed in the
variations (deltas) of the values over the several parameters measured
between the groups. Analyses of exercise duration and
VO2 deltas are provided in the Supplementary Data III.