Article
The utility of the 6-minute walk test as a measure of frailty in older adults with heart failure.
The American journal of geriatric cardiology - 1 Jan 2000
Boxer Rebecca S, Wang Zhu, Walsh Stephen J, Hager David, Kenny Anne M
Abstract excerpt
Patients with heart failure (HF) are at increased risk for frailty, and identification is challenging. The authors assessed the distance on the 6-minute walk test (6MWT) as a measure of frailty in 60 older HF patients (ejection fraction <or= 40%) compared with frailty phenotype (FP). Scores were...
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