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ArticleFrontiers in physiology2021

Detection of Walk Tests in Free-Living Activities Using a Wrist-Worn Device.

Daivaras Sokas, Birutė Paliakaitė, Andrius Rapalis, Vaidotas Marozas, Raquel Bailón, Andrius Petrėnas

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Article in Frontiers in physiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Daivaras SokasBiomedical Engineering Institute, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Birutė PaliakaitėBiomedical Engineering Institute, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Andrius RapalisBiomedical Engineering Institute, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Vaidotas MarozasBiomedical Engineering Institute, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Raquel BailónBiomedical Signal Interpretation & Computational Simulation (BSICoS) Group, Aragón Institute of Engineering Research (I3A), IIS Aragón, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.
Andrius PetrėnasBiomedical Engineering Institute, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Kaunas University of Technology · LTInstituto de Investigación Sanitaria Aragón · ES

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Exercise testing to assess the response to physical rehabilitation or lifestyle interventions is administered in clinics thus at best can be repeated only few times a year. This study explores a novel approach to collecting information on functional performance through walk tests, e.g., a 6-min walk test (6MWT), unintentionally performed in free-living activities. Walk tests are detected in step data provided by a wrist-worn device. Only those events of minute-to-minute variation in walking cadence, which is equal or lower than the empirically determined maximal SD (e.g., 5-steps), are considered as walk test candidates. Out of detected walk tests within the non-overlapping sliding time interval (e.g., 1-week), the one with the largest number of steps is chosen as the most representative. This approach is studied on a cohort of 99 subjects, assigned to the groups of patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and healthy subjects below and over 40-years-old, who were asked to wear the device while maintaining their usual physical activity regimen. The total wear time was 8,864 subject-days after excluding the intervals of occasionally discontinued monitoring. About 82% (23/28) of patients with CVD and 88% (21/24) of healthy subjects over 40-years-old had at least a single 6MWT over the 1st month of monitoring. About 52% of patients with CVD (12/23) and 91% (19/21) of healthy subjects over 40-years-old exceeded 500 m. Patients with CVD, on average, walked 46 m shorter 6MWT distance (

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6-min walk testfitbitfitness trackerfunctional capacityfunctional performancefunctional statusphysical activitywearable device

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PMCPMC8397518
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