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However, their roles on exercise limitation and the relationship with functional lung tests have not been studied in detail.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Our aim was to evaluate exercise performance and its determinants in cHP. We evaluated maximal cardiopulmonary exercise testing performance in 28 cHP patients (forced vital capacity 57\u00b117% pred) and 18 healthy controls during cycling.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Patients had reduced exercise performance with lower peak oxygen production (16.6 (12.3\u201319.98) mL\u00b7kg<jats:sup>\u22121<\/jats:sup>\u00b7min<jats:sup>\u22121<\/jats:sup><jats:italic>versus<\/jats:italic>25.1 (16.9\u201332.0), p=0.003), diminished breathing reserve (% maximal voluntary ventilation) (12 (6.4\u201334.8)%<jats:italic>versus<\/jats:italic>41 (32.7\u201350.8)%, p&lt;0.001) and hyperventilation (minute ventilation\/carbon dioxide production slope 37\u00b15<jats:italic>versus<\/jats:italic>31\u00b14, p&lt;0.001). All patients presented oxygen desaturation and augmented Borg dyspnoea scores (8 (5\u201310)<jats:italic>versus<\/jats:italic>4 (1\u20137), p=0.004). The prevalence of dynamic hyperinflation was found in only 18% of patients. When comparing cHP patients with normal and low peak oxygen production (&lt;84% pred, lower limit of normal), the latter exhibited a higher minute ventilation\/carbon dioxide production slope (39\u00b15.0<jats:italic>versus<\/jats:italic>34\u00b13.6, p=0.004), lower tidal volume (0.84 (0.78\u20130.90) L<jats:italic>versus<\/jats:italic>1.15 (0.97\u20131.67) L, p=0.002), and poorer physical functioning score on the Short form-36 health survey. Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis showed that reduced lung volumes (forced vital capacity %, total lung capacity % and diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon dioxide %) were high predictors of poor exercise capacity.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Reduced exercise capacity was prevalent in patients because of ventilatory limitation and not due to dynamic hyperinflation. 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