Short and Fast Step Test: Feasibility, Validity and Tolerance of a Functional Evaluation Test of Lactic Anaerobic Capacities in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease

Exclusion Criteria

• •Protected adult
• •Patient not affiliated to a national health insurance scheme
• •Pregnant or breastfeeding woman
• •Orthostatic hypotension
• •Severe obstructive heart disease
• •aortic valve narrowing
• •Progressive severe cardiac rhythm or conduction disorders not requiring a device, detected during the initial stress test.
• •intracavitary cardiac thrombus
• •severe pulmonary arterial hypertension (systolic pulmonary hypertension \>70mmHg)
• •recent venous thromboembolic history (last 3 months)
• •heart transplantation
• •associated medical condition that can predominantly impair functional and respiratory capacities (examples: unstabilized metabolic disorders such as progressive renal failure, significant asthenia related to a severe unstabilized condition such as neoplasia, systemic disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease...)
• •physical impairments of the lower limbs hindering the test, whether neurological (central or peripheral), arterial (in particular, arteriopathy of the lower limbs with systolic index \< 0.6) or orthopedic (degenerative or inflammatory rheumatism)
• •Treatment with Corticosteroids, Anabolics, or L-Carnitine.