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SUBMITTER: Aguilaniu B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4181548 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Aguilaniu Bernard B Roth Hubert H Gonzalez-Bermejo Jesus J Jondot Marie M Maitre Jocelyne J Denis François F Similowski Thomas T
International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 20140923
The functional work capacity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients is usually assessed with walk tests such as the 6-minute walk test (6MWT) or the shuttle test. Because these exercise modalities require a controlled environment which limits their use by pulmonologists and severely restricts their use among general practitioners, different modalities of a short (1 minute or less) sit-to-stand test were recently proposed. In this study, we evaluated a new modality of a semipace ...[more]