Six-minute walk test in children and adolescents with renal diseases: tolerance, reproducibility and comparison with healthy subjects

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate exercise tolerance and the reproducibility of the six-minute walk test in Brazilian children and adolescents with chronic kidney disease and to compare their functional exercise capacities with reference values for healthy children. METHODS: This cross-sectional study assess...

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Main Authors: Flávia Tieme Watanabe, Vera Herminia Kalika Koch, Regina Celia Turola Passos Juliani, Maristela Trevisan Cunha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier España 2016-01-01
Series:Clinics
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1807-59322016000100022&lng=en&tlng=en