Walking impairment questionnaire improves mortality risk prediction models in a high-risk cohort independent of peripheral arterial disease status

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 255-261

  Nead, Kevin T ^a   Zhou, Margaret ^a   Caceres, Roxanne Diaz ^a   Olin, Jeffrey W ^b   Cooke, John P ^a   Leeper, Nicholas J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

High risk populations; Mortality; Peripheral artery disease; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; SCORING SYSTEM; WALKING; WALKING IMPAIRMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; WALKING SPEED;

HIGH-RISK POPULATIONS; MORTALITY; PERIPHERAL ARTERY DISEASE; RISK FACTORS;

AGED; CALIFORNIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WALKING;

EID: 84881096314     PISSN: 19417713     EISSN: 19417705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.111.000070     Document Type: Article

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