Internal medicine

Cohort study

Coronary artery disease

Physical activity

Myocardial infarction

Blood pressure

Logistic regression

Cardiology

Surgery

Physical therapy

VO2 max

Prospective cohort study

Metabolic equivalent

Cardiac surgery

Heart rate

Cohort

Medicine

The Lancet

Subjectively assessed functional capacity should not be used for preoperative risk evaluation. Clinicians could instead consider a measure such as DASI for cardiac risk assessment.

Assessment of functional capacity before major non-cardiac surgery: an international, prospective cohort study