Chemoreflex Control of Sympathetic Activity in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease

Exclusion Criteria

• •Patients with angina and / or ischemia,
• •Patients with diabetic neuropathy and / or ischemia of the lower limbs;
• •Previous diagnosis of chronic pulmonary, neurological and orthopedic diseases, neoplasia, renal failure and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus;
• •Patients with acute myocardial infarction, cardiac surgery or hospitalization of cardiac origin six months before the study and carriers of pacemaker / implantable defibrillator;
• •Patients with cardiac dysfunction (ejection fraction of left ventricle \<40%);
• •Current smoking and pregnant women.