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Reference values for the 6-minute walk test in healthy children and adolescents in Switzerland

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Pulmonary Medicine, August 2013
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Title
Reference values for the 6-minute walk test in healthy children and adolescents in Switzerland
Published in
BMC Pulmonary Medicine, August 2013
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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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 2 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 293 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 49 16%
Student > Master 38 13%
Researcher 28 9%
Student > Postgraduate 27 9%
Other 26 9%
Other 67 22%
Unknown 66 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 122 41%
Nursing and Health Professions 37 12%
Sports and Recreations 16 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 4%
Neuroscience 6 2%
Other 30 10%
Unknown 77 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 April 2022.
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#4,725,141
of 23,881,329 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pulmonary Medicine
#352
of 2,030 outputs
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#39,401
of 200,449 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pulmonary Medicine
#2
of 10 outputs
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