Title |
Reference values for the 6-minute walk test in healthy children and adolescents in Switzerland
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Published in |
BMC Pulmonary Medicine, August 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2466-13-49 |
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Authors |
Silvia Ulrich, Florian F Hildenbrand, Ursula Treder, Manuel Fischler, Stephan Keusch, Rudolf Speich, Margrit Fasnacht |
Abstract |
The six-minute walk test (6MWT) is a simple, low tech, safe and well established, self-paced assessment tool to quantify functional exercise capacity in adults. The definition of normal 6MWT in children is especially demanding since not only parameters like height, weight and ethnical background influence the measurement, but may be as crucial as age and the developmental stage. The aim of this study is establishing reference values for the 6MWT in healthy children and adolescents in Switzerland and to investigate the influence of age, anthropometrics, heart rate, blood pressure and physical activity on the distance walked. |
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