Six-Minute Walk Test in Patients With Down Syndrome: Validity and Reproducibility

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 90, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1423-1427

  Vis, Jeroen C ^a,b   Thoonsen, Hanneke ^a   Duffels, Marielle G ^a,b   de Bruin Bon, Rianne A ^a   Huisman, Sylvia A ^c   van Dijk, Arie P ^d   Hoendermis, Elke S ^e   Berger, Rolf M ^e   Bouma, Berto J ^a   Mulder, Barbara J ^a,f  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c Prinsenstichting   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Down syndrome; Exercise test; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOWN SYNDROME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; VALIDITY; WALKING;

ADULT; DOWN SYNDROME; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WALKING;

EID: 67849092000     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2009.02.015     Document Type: Article

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