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Exercise testing in the assessment of respiratory disease.

Although for most patients with respiratory disease exertional dyspnoea is their major symptom, its nature is not often evaluated by an exercise test, largely because exercise testing is time consuming. This article discusses the various types of exercise tests, the response to exercise in both normal subjects and patients with lung disease and the role of exercise testing with reference to therapeutics.