Reference values of 6 minutes walk test (6 MWT) in Bangladeshi healthy subjects aged 25-55 years

Reference values of 6 minutes walk test (6 MWT) in Bangladeshi healthy subjects aged 25-55 years.

INTRODUCTION The six minute walk test (6MWT) is increasingly accepted worldwide to assess functional exercise capacity of cardiac and pulmonary diseases for its simplicity. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to provide reference values for 6 Minute Walk Distance (6MWD) and other primary variables such as oxygen saturation (SaO2), pulse rate (PR) and breathlessness perception...

[Reference values for the 6-minutes walking test in healthy subjects 20-80 years old].

BACKGROUND the six minute walking distance test (6MWD) is widely used to evaluate exercise capacity in several diseases due to its simplicity and low cost. AIM to establish reference values for 6MWD in healthy Chilean individuals. MATERIAL AND METHODS we studied 175 healthy volunteers aged 20-80 years (98 women) with normal spirometry and without history of respiratory, cardiovascular or ot...

Six-Minute Walk Test: Reference Values and Prediction Equation in Healthy Boys Aged 5 to12 Years

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to (1) generate normative data in healthy boys aged 5-12 years for the six-minute walk test (6MWT), an outcome measure currently used in clinical trials in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), (2) to describe the relation with anthropometric variables and myometry, and (3) to compare our data with published equations. METHODS The 6MWT was conducted in 442 boys accordi...

Reference values for the 6-minute walk test in healthy children and adolescents in Switzerland

BACKGROUND The six-minute walk test (6MWT) is a simple, low tech, safe and well established, self-paced assessment tool to quantify functional exercise capacity in adults. The definition of normal 6MWT in children is especially demanding since not only parameters like height, weight and ethnical background influence the measurement, but may be as crucial as age and the developmental stage. The ...

Regression equations to predict 6 - minute walk distance in Chinese adults aged 55 – 85 years