European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on March 21, 2005
European Heart Journal 2005 26(8):749-750; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi207
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‘This is a walking test, not a talking test’: the six minute walking test in congestive heart failure
Department of Medicine, Viborg County Hospital, Heibergs Allé, 8800 Viborg, Denmark
* Corresponding author. Tel: +45 8660 2860; fax: +45 8927 3494. E-mail address: jensrefsgaard@post.tele.dk
This editorial refers to ‘Six minute corridor walk test as an outcome measure for the assessment of treatment in randomized, blinded intervention trials of chronic heart failure: a systematic review’
by L.G. Olsson et al., on page 778
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Decreased exercise capacity is experienced by many patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). During normal daily activities exertion, fatigue, and dyspnoea are frequently reported, and reduced maximal exercise capacity found in the setting of laboratory-based testing is well known.1 Measurement of exercise capacity has been adapted as a principal variable to assess the clinical effect during evaluation of a new drug and as a supplementary method to describe one facet of the intervention. However, determination of exercise capacity during medical treatment in patients with CHF using different exercise tests has yielded different outcomes in single-centre as well as multi-centre studies. The heterogeneity of the studies on medical treatment with
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