Six-minute walk test: Reference values and prediction equation in healthy boys aged 5 to12 years

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Goemans, Nathalie ^a   Klingels, Katrijn ^b   Van Den Hauwe, Marleen ^a   Boons, Stefanie ^b   Verstraete, Liese ^b   Peeters, Charlotte ^b   Feys, Hilde ^b   Buyse, Gunnar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTHROMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; SCHOOL CHILD; SIX MINUTE WALK TEST; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; WALKING SPEED;

AGE FACTORS; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, DUCHENNE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; WALKING;

EID: 84896710462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084120     Document Type: Article

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