Predictors of 6-minute walk test results in lean, obese and morbidly obese women

Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 98-105

  Hulens, M ^a,c   Vansant, G ^a   Claessens, A L ^b   Lysens, R ^a   Muls, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Fac of Phys Educ and Physiother   (Belgium)

Author keywords

6 minute walk; Obesity; Women

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ADULT; AEROBIC CAPACITY; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); CONTROLLED STUDY; COXITIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DYSPNEA; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FITNESS; HEART DISEASE; HEART RATE; HEIGHT; HUMAN; ISOKINETIC EXERCISE; KNEE PAIN; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; OBESITY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RATING SCALE; SITTING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOM; WALKING; WEIGHT; ADOLESCENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MORBID OBESITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OBESITY, MORBID; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL FITNESS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WALKING;

EID: 0038307119     PISSN: 09057188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0838.2003.10273.x     Document Type: Article

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