Abstract Background Cardiorespiratory fitness seems to play an important role in the general health of patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD). However, prediction peak oxygen uptake (V̇O 2peak ) a clinical setting is not widely adopted for these patients. Objectives Evaluate agreement and reliability between directly indirectly V̇O measurements HD. Methods This cross-sectional study with HD that p...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary hypertension (PH) occurs frequently and results in functional limitation in advanced COPD. Data regarding the functional consequence of PH in less severe COPD are limited. Whether echocardiographic evidence of right sided heart pathology is associated with functional outcomes in patients with non-severe COPD is unknown. METHODS We evaluated pulmonary function, six minute ...

BACKGROUND Heart rate recovery at one minute of rest (HRR1) is a predictor of mortality in heart failure (HF), but its prognosis has not been assessed at six-minute walk test (6MWT) in these patients. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to determine the HRR1 at 6MWT in patients with HF and its correlation with six-minute walk distance (6MWD). METHODS Cross-sectional, controlled protocol with 161 ind...

BACKGROUND The 6 min walk test (6MWT) provides prognostic information in various respiratory diseases, but limited data exist in cystic fibrosis (CF) adults. METHODS Consecutive CF adults who performed 6MWT at Cochin Hospital (Paris, France) over 12 years were analyzed. The cut-off 6 min walking distance (6MWD) value that best predicted a combined endpoint (death without transplant or lung tr...

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...

Introduction: Submaximal tests have been chosen to evaluate functional status because of their practicality and low cost. Objective: To correlate the distance walked during a six-minute test with age and body mass index, and to verify the need for applying a second test. Method: 122 healthy Brazilians aged between 18 and 80 years who had a sedentary lifestyle performed two tests that consisted ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the behavior of oxygen saturation curves throughout the six-minute walk test (6MWT) in patients with COPD. METHODS We included 85 patients, all of whom underwent spirometry and were classified as having moderate COPD (modCOPD, n = 30) or severe COPD (sevCOPD, n = 55). All of the patients performed a 6MWT, in a 27-m corridor with continuous SpO2 and HR monitoring by telem...

Aim/Hypothesis. To examine whether children with DMT1 are less physically fit than healthy children and to assess whether an elevated level of HbA1c was associated with decreased physical fitness among children with diabetes. Methods. The study was conducted using case-control methodology. The cases were 100 children with T1DM, 7-17,9 years. Study subjects underwent a 6MWT, where distance measu...