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SUBMITTER: Zou H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7310198 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zou He H Zhang Jia J Zou Yingying Y Chen Xiaoshu X Wang Yi Y Chen Hao H Ye Fanhao F Yu Haizhu H
BMC pulmonary medicine 20200622 1
<h4>Background</h4>The six-minute walking test (6MWT) is a tool that plays a key role in evaluating the functional exercise capacity, prognosis and evaluation of treatment response of patients with various cardiopulmonary diseases. However, standard reference equations are currently unavailable for the six-minute walking distance (6MWD) for people aged 60-85 years in China. The purpose of this study was to 1) measure the 6MWD of healthy Chinese people aged 60-85 years, 2) establish reference equ ...[more]