Correlation of six minute walk test with spirometric indices in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients: A tertiary care hospital experience

Correlation of six minute walk test with spirometric indices in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients: A tertiary care hospital experience

Background: Six-minute walk test (6MWT) is a simple, objective, reproducible test which correlated well with different spirometric indices, and thus able to predict severity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and can replace spirometry in resource poor set-up. Aims and Objectives: To fi...

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Main Authors: Abhijit Kundu, Arnab Maji, Supriyo Sarkar, Kaushik Saha, Debraj Jash, Malay Maikap
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2015-01-01
Series:The Journal of Association of Chest Physicians
Subjects:
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
correlation
six-minute walk test
spirometric indices
severity
Online Access:http://www.jacpjournal.org/article.asp?issn=2320-8775;year=2015;volume=3;issue=1;spage=9;epage=13;aulast=Kundu

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