The 185 women over 40 years of age hospitalized for arterial hypertension in the Department of Cardiology will be included in the study, including: the study group who demonstrated maximal oxygen consumption measured during incremental exercise indexed per kilogram - VO2max<17 ml/kg/min and a second group who presented VO2max>17 ml/min/kg.Selected prognostic factors will be analyzed, among others: demographic data of the patient, physical examination, symptoms, etiology and history of arterial hypertension, co-morbidities, results of selected laboratory tests, selected electrocardiographic and echocardiographic data, patient's cooperation with the doctor, treatment applied, parameters in the spiroergometric study, non-invasive assessment for central arterial pressure waveform analysis and body mass analysis.
The subject of the study is evaluation of factors affecting to exercise intolerance in spiroergometry in women over 40 years of age with hypertension and association and relationship between the parameters of physical performance and prognosis in this group of patients.