The first reference equations for the 6-minute walk distance over a 10 m course

Thorax

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 867-868

  Beekman, Emmylou ^a,b   Mesters, Ilse ^a   Gosselink, Rik ^c,d   Klaassen, Mariska P M ^e   Hendriks, Erik J M ^f   Van Schayck, Onno C P ^a   De Bie, Rob A ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Physical Therapy Section in Multidisciplinary Centre ParaMedisch Centrum Sittard Zuid   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f Physical Therapy Practice Fysiotherapie Maasstaete   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

6 MINUTE WALK TEST; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISTANCE; DYSPNEA; EXPERIMENTAL LOCOMOTOR ACTIVITY TEST; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN SATURATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VERY ELDERLY;

CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY; COPD EPIDEMIOLOGY; EMPHYSEMA; EMPYEMA; EXERCISE; PULMONARY REHABILITATION; RESPIRATORY MEASUREMENT; SYSTEMIC DISEASE AND LUNGS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 84905976593     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2014-205228     Document Type: Article

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