Key result
The 6-minute walk test provides diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic utility for assessing functional status and predicting disease course in patients with heart failure.
Why the study?
Early diagnosis, appropriate therapy, and effective disease control improve HF prognosis, and recent research highlights new potential for the 6MWT to interpret and predict disease course.
Population
Patients with heart failure
Design
Review
Authors
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May refine 6MWT interpretation for HF prognosis; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
The 6-minute walk test is a valuable tool for assessing functional status, prognosis, and therapeutic response in patients with heart failure.
Budnevsky et al. (2020) conducted a review in Heart failure. 6-minute walk test (6MWT) was evaluated. The 6-minute walk test provides diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic utility for assessing functional status and predicting disease course in patients with heart failure.
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