6-Minute walk distance in healthy North Africans older than 40 years: Influence of parity

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 74-84

  Ben Saad, Helmi ^a,b,c   Prefaut, Christian ^b,c   Tabka, Zouhair ^a   Hadj Mtir, Abdelaziz ^a   Chemit, Mohamed ^a   Hassaoune, Rym ^a   Ben Abid, Tarek ^a   Zara, Khelifa ^a   Mercier, Grégoire ^d   Zbidi, Abdelkrim ^a   Hayot, Maurice ^b,c  

^a Service de Physiologie et des Explorations Fonctionnelles   (Tunisia)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c MONTPELLIER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d HÔPITAL ARNAUD DE VILLENEUVE   (France)

Author keywords

6 Min walk distance; Adults; Parity; Reference equations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NORTH AFRICA; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROMETRY; WALKING SPEED;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS; SPIROMETRY; TUNISIA; WALKING;

EID: 58049192827     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2008.07.023     Document Type: Article

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