Caroline Morbach, Nicola Moser, Vladimir Cejka, Michael Stach, Floran Sahiti, Fabian Kerwagen, Stefan Frantz, Rüdiger Pryss, Götz Gelbrich, Peter U Heuschmann, Stefan Störk
AIMS: The 6-min walk test is an inexpensive, safe, and easy tool to assess functional capacity in patients with cardiopulmonary diseases including heart failure (HF). There is a lack of reference values, which are a prerequisite for the interpretation of test results in patients. Furthermore, determinants independent of the respective disease need to be considered when interpreting the 6-min walk distance (6MWD). METHODS: The prospective Characteristics and Course of Heart Failure Stages A-B and Determinants of Progression (STAAB) cohort study investigates a representative sample of residents of the City of Würzburg, Germany, aged 30 to 79 years, without a history of HF...
January 18, 2024: Clinical Research in Cardiology: Official Journal of the German Cardiac Society