Reference values for the 6-min walk test in healthy children aged 6-12 years

Pediatric Pulmonology

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1174-1179

  Priesnitz, Camila Varella ^a   Rodrigues, Geneviève Horak ^a   Da Silva Stumpf, Carolina ^a   Viapiana, Giovana ^a   Cabral, Cristina Posteraro ^a   Stein, Renato Tetelbom ^a   Marostica, Paulo José Cauduro ^b   Fagundes Donadio, Márcio Vinícius ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

6 min walk test; Healthy children; Reference equations

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BRAZIL; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; WALKING;

CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WALKING;

EID: 73449097176     PISSN: 87556863     EISSN: 10990496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppul.21062     Document Type: Article

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