Cardiorespiratory requirements and reproducibility of the six-minute walk test in elderly patients with coronary artery disease

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 85, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1538-1543

  Gayda, Mathieu ^a   Temfemo, Abdou ^a   Choquet, Dominique ^a,b   Ahmaïdi, Saïd ^a,c  

^a campus universitaire Le bailly   (France)

^b Hopital de Corbie   (France)

^c Allée P Grousset ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Elderly; Rehabilitation; Reproducibility of results; Walking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR CONDITIONING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GAS ANALYSIS; HEART RATE; HEART REHABILITATION; HUMAN; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; WALKING;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANAEROBIC THRESHOLD; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BREATH TESTS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; PULMONARY VENTILATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STROKE VOLUME; TELEMETRY; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; WALKING;

EID: 4544285570     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2003.11.037     Document Type: Article

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