Association between 6-minute walk test and all-cause mortality, coronary heart disease-specific mortality, and incident coronary heart disease

Journal of Aging and Health

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 583-599

  Yazdanyar, Ali ^a   Aziz, Michael M ^b   Enright, Paul L ^c   Edmundowicz, Daniel ^d   Boudreau, Robert ^e   Sutton Tyrell, Kim ^e   Kuller, Lewis ^e   Newman, Anne B ^e  

^a Section of Hospital Medicine Department of Medicine Reading Health System   (United States)

^b Atlantic Health   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

exercise; geriatrics; mortality; physical function

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906655929     PISSN: 08982643     EISSN: 15526887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0898264314525665     Document Type: Article

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