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Implications for clinical practice
RPE may be used as a subjective measure of exercise intensity during GXT
in exercise intensity of 0.5 W/kg during GXT is followed by in RPE of 3.9 ± 1.92
most of adult cardiovascular patients on beta-blockade (86 %) are able to produce their target intensity (60 % VO2max) with an acceptable error (<10 % in all trials) using target RPE, however, with great inter and intra-individual variability