March 15, 2001European Heart JournalOpen Access

Six-minute walking performance in patients with moderate-to-severe heart failure; is it a useful indicator in clinical practice?

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Why the study?

Is the 6-minute walk test a useful prognostic indicator in patients with moderate-to-severe heart failure?

Population

Patients with moderate-to-severe chronic heart failure

Comparison

6-minute walk test vs Peak VO2 or NYHA class

Authors

COCristina OpasichHeart Failure & Transplant

Discussion

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Implication

Supports limiting 6MWT for decisions in moderate-severe HF; leaves open its role in milder disease or other endpoints.

Structured PICO

Is the 6-minute walk test a useful prognostic indicator in patients with moderate-to-severe heart failure?

Population

Patients with moderate-to-severe chronic heart failure

Intervention

6-minute walk test

Comparator

Peak VO2 or NYHA class

Outcome

Prognostic information, relation to cardiac function and exercise capacity

The 6-minute walk test has limited usefulness as a decisional indicator in clinical practice for patients with moderate-to-severe heart failure.

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Cristina Opasich (2001) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69aea782e8b2090a71ff9e79 https://doi.org/10.1053/euhj.2000.2310

Topics

Heart failure HFrEF treatment

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Six-minute walking performance in patients with moderate-to-severe heart failure; is it a useful indicator in clinical practice?

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Structured PICO

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Six-minute walking performance in patients with moderate-to-severe heart failure; is it a useful indicator in clinical practice?

Discussion

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Implication

Structured PICO

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