Six minute walk test Z score: Correlations with cystic fibrosis severity markers

Journal of Cystic Fibrosis

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 253-256

  Stollar, Fabíola ^a   Rodrigues, Joaquim C ^a   Cunha, Maristela T ^a   Leone, Claudio ^a   Adde, Fabíola Villac ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chest imaging; Fibrosis; Function tests; Minute walk test

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SIX MINUTE WALK TEST; SPIROMETRY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WALKING;

ADOLESCENT; BRAZIL; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860649049     PISSN: 15691993     EISSN: 18735010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcf.2011.11.009     Document Type: Article

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