ArticleBMC research notes2015
Cardiac hemodynamic response to the 6-minute walk test in young adults and the elderly.
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- Cardiovascular and Functional Consequences of Lung Function Impairment in Northern Thai Agricultural Workers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Non-Invasive Assessment of Cardiodynamics by Impedance Cardiography during the Six-Minute Walk Test in Patients with Heart Failure.Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia · 2023Observational
- Forest Bathing Is Better than Walking in Urban Park: Comparison of Cardiac and Vascular Function between Urban and Forest Parks.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Observational
- Noninvasive investigation of the cardiodynamic response to 6MWT in people after stroke using impedance cardiography.PloS one · 2020Observational
- Cardiac output response to exercise in patients before allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.International journal of clinical oncology · 2018Article
- Association of Early Myocardial Workload and Mortality Following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury.Critical care medicine · 2018Article
- The Importance of the Double Product in the Six-Minute Walk Test to Predict Myocardial Function.BioMed research international · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundExercise capacity is evaluated using the 6-minute walk test in various diseases. Variety in the distances walked was also shown in healthy subjects. Moreover, age-related influences on cardiac hemodynamic response to the 6-minute walk test have not been clarified. The purpose of this study was thus to investigate the hemodynamic response to the 6-minute walk test and to detect factors related to the distance walked in healthy subjects.
methodsThirteen young adults (age 20.5 ± 0.7 years, BMI 22.0 ± 4.3) and 26 elderly individuals (age 60.2 ± 6.1 years, BMI 21.7 ± 2.2) were enrolled to measure real-time hemodynamic responses using non-invasive impedance cardiography during the 6-minute walk test.
resultsStroke volume was higher in the young than in the elderly and reached a plateau within 30 s of starting to walk in all subjects. An increase in heart rate took more than 1 min in the elderly, while it took less than 30 s in the young, which resulted in slower increases in cardiac output and cardiac index in the elderly. There was no difference in the distance in the 6-minute walk test between the young and the elderly. The distance walked was correlated with heart rate, cardiac output, and cardiac index, but not with stroke volume, at the end of the 6-minute walk test.
conclusionsThe distance walked appeared to depend on increased cardiac output based on heart rate, but did not appear to be limited by stroke volume, in healthy subjects.
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