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Six-minute-walk test and maximum exercise test in cycloergometer in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Are the physiological demands equivalent?
(2010)
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:
The physiological load imposed by the six minute walk test (SMWT) in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients come from small studies where the influence of disease severity has not ...
Comparison between the six-minute walk test and the six-minute step test in post stroke patients
(2013-08-09)
Background: The Stroke remains one of the major chronic diseases worldwide, and is considered a major cause of disability, which results not only in persistent neurological deficits, but also in the high physical deconditioning, ...
Six-minute walk test: functional capacity of severely obese before and after bariatric surgery
(ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2009)
Background: The 6-minute walk test (6MWT) is a well-known instrument for assessing the functional capacity of a variety of groups, including the obese. It is a simple, low-cost and easily applied method to objectively ...
Six minute walk test Z score: Correlations with cystic fibrosis severity markers
(ELSEVIER SCIENCE BVAMSTERDAM, 2012)
Background: The six-minute-walk-test (6MWT) has been increasingly used in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. However, few studies in children have correlated 6MWT with current parameters used to evaluate CF severity. Moreover, ...
Reproducibility of the self-controlled six-minute walking test in heart failure patients
(Faculdade de Medicina / USP, 2008)
INTRODUCTION: The six-minute walk test (6WT) has been proposed to be a submaximal test, but could actually demand a high level of exercise intensity from the patient, expressed by a respiratory quotient >1.0, following the ...
Norepinephrine remains increased in the six-minute walking test after heart transplantation
(Faculdade de Medicina / USP, 2010)
OBJECTIVE: We sought to evaluate the neurohormonal activity in heart transplant recipients and compare it with that in heart failure patients and healthy subjects during rest and just after a 6-minute walking test. ...
Distances walked in the six-minute walk test: suggestion of defining characteristic for the nursing diagnosis Ineffective Peripheral Tissue Perfusion
(UNIV SAO PAULO, ESCOLA DE ENFERMAGEM DE RIBEIRAO PRETORIBEIRAO PRETO, 2012)
Distances walked in walking tests are important functional markers, although they are not accepted as defining characteristics of Ineffective Peripheral Tissue Perfusion. The aims of this study were to verify the distances ...
Comparison between the six-minute walk test and the six-minute step test in post stroke patients
(2013)
Abstract
Background
The Stroke remains one of the major chronic diseases worldwide, and is considered a major cause of disability, which results not only in persistent neurological deficits, ...