Table 2

Resting and Peak Exercise Cardiovascular and Metabolic Variables. Data presented as mean (SD).

Healthy
Controls (n=30)
Diabetes
(n=28)
Stroke
(n=34)
Mitochondrial Disease (n=28)Heart
Failure (n=32)
Resting metabolic and cardiac variables
Oxygen consumption, mL/kg/min3.9 (0.8)3.3 (1.0)*3.6 (0.8)4.2 (0.8)4.0 (0.8)
Heart rate, bpm69 (8)†76 (10)‡74 (10)§79 (10)¶62 (10)
Mean blood pressure, mmHg101 (10)106 (11)‡102 (11)108 (16)¶92 (9)
Cardiac index, L/min/m23.5 (0.6)**3.1 (0.4)‡3.2 (0.5)§3.4 (0.4)¶2.2 (0.2)
Cardiac power output, Watts1.41 (0.29)**1.33 (0.28)‡1.39 (0.27)§1.48 (0.41) ¶0.86 (0.23)
Stroke Volume, mL/beat95.1 (22.9)**, †83.0 (15.3)83.7 (13.9)77.8 (13.2)68.4 (17.1)
Peripheral vascular resistance, dyne/s/cm2Ddsd 1215 (252) **, †1368 (308)1275 (296)1416 (351)1795 (382)
Arteriovenous oxygen difference, mL/100 mL4.7 (0.9)**5.5 (2.1)‡4.9 (1.2)§4.6 (1.2) ¶7.2 (2.2)
Peak exercise metabolic and cardiac variables
Oxygen consumption, mL/kg/min33.1 (12.1)**, ††, †, ‡‡21.9 (5.3)17.7 (4.5)19.5 (5.4)22.0 (5.3)
Heart rate, bpm157 (24)**, *153 (14)‡, §§127 (26)§150 (24)¶, **117 (25)
Oxygen pulse, mL/beat16.2 (4.4)**, *, †, ††13.0 (4.1)‡, *11.6 (3.9)8.6 (3.2)¶12.2 (4.5)
Mean blood pressure, mmHg130 (11)**140 (16)‡, *133 (9)§125 (13)¶105 (15)
Cardiac index, L/min/m29.9 (2.4)**, †8.6 (1.9)‡8.0 (1.2)§8.4 (1.6)6.1 (1.1)
Cardiac power output, Watts5.41 (1.70)**, †5.37 (1.11)‡, *4.71 (1.14)§3.98 (1.11)2.56 (1.53)
Stroke Volume, mL/beat125.7 (36.9)**, †126.8 (29.1)§§128.9 (30.1)96.5 (24.7)102.9 (43.5)
Peripheral vascular resistance, dyne/s/cm2553 (128)**651 (192)665 (177)662 (204)724 (298)
Arteriovenous oxygen difference, mL/100 mL11.9 (3.0)**, *, †9.8 (3.8)‡9.3 (2.4)§9.1 (2.6)14.4 (4.2)
Ventilatory efficiency slope27.2 (6.4)**, *, †29.8 (8.1)‡, *, §§32.4 (7.4)35.7 (8.3)36.7 (7.8)
  • Significant differences between the groups (significance p<0.05, data extrapolated from one-way ANOVA and Tukey post-hoc test):

  • *Mitochondrial Disease vs Diabetes

  • †Mitochondrial Disease vs Healthy

  • ‡Heart Failure vs Diabetes

  • §Heart failure vs Stroke

  • ¶Heart Failure vs Mitochondrial Disease

  • **Heart Failure vs Healthy

  • ††Stroke vs Healthy

  • ‡‡Diabetes vs Healthy

  • §§Stoke vs Diabetes

  • ¶¶Stoke vs Mitochondrial Disease