Six-minute walking performance in patients with moderate-to-severe heart failure; is it a useful indicator in clinical practice? | Zendy

Cristina Opasich | Zendy

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Six-minute walking performance in patients with moderate-to-severe heart failure; is it a useful indicator in clinical practice?

Author(s) -

Cristina Opasich

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

european heart journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.336

H-Index - 293

eISSN - 1522-9645

pISSN - 0195-668X

DOI - 10.1053/euhj.2000.2310

Subject(s) - medicine , heart failure , quartile , univariate analysis , anaerobic exercise , cardiology , clinical significance , physical therapy , multivariate analysis , confidence interval

The 6-min walk test has been incorporated into studies on the efficacy of new therapies and into prognostic stratification for chronic heart failure patients. Firm conclusions on the usefulness of the test in clinical practice are still lacking. The aim of this study was to investigate (1) the correlation between walk test performance and standard indices of cardiac function and exercise capacity, and (2) the prognostic value of the walk test with respect to peak VO2 and NYHA class.

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