Clinical usefulness and limitations of the 6-minute walk test in patients with cardiovascular or pulmonary disease

Chest

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 325-327

  Reybrouck, Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; BREATHING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLAUDICATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; EDITORIAL; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FITNESS; GAS EXCHANGE; GENDER; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INFECTION; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

EID: 0037331685     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.123.2.325     Document Type: Editorial

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