Clinical reliability of the 6 minute corridor walk test performed within a week of a myocardial infarction

International Heart Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 533-540

  Nogueira, Patricia Angélica de Miranda Silva ^a   Leal, Ana Cristina Monteiro ^a   Pulz, Cristiane ^a   Nogueira, Ivan Daniel Bezerra ^a   Filho, Japy Angelini Oliveira ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

6 minute walking test; Exercise; Functional evaluation; Myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THORAX PAIN; WALKING;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CREATINE KINASE, MB FORM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WALKING;

EID: 33749138868     PISSN: 13492365     EISSN: 13493299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/ihj.47.533     Document Type: Article

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