Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
6 min walk test is a strong independent predictor of death in outpatients with heart failure |
| Authors: |
Morten Grundtvig, Torfinn Eriksen‐Volnes, Stein Ørn, Eva Kjøl Slind, Lars Gullestad |
| Source: |
ESC Heart Failure, Vol 7, Iss 5, Pp 2904-2911 (2020) |
| Publisher Information: |
Wiley, 2020. |
| Publication Year: |
2020 |
| Collection: |
LCC:Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system |
| Subject Terms: |
Exercise testing, 6 min walk test, Heart failure, Mortality, Registry, Natriuretic peptides, Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system, RC666-701 |
| More Details: |
Abstract Aims The aim of this study was to examine the prognostic value of the 6 min walk test (6MWT) in a large cohort of outpatients with heart failure. Methods and results A total of 5519 outpatients with heart failure from the National Norwegian Heart Failure Registry (NNHFR), which is part of the Norwegian Cardiovascular Disease Registry, were included in this analysis. The NNHFR recommended the use of the 6MWT for prognostic assessment of all patients included in the registry. Patients were categorized according to the 6MWT: Category 1 walked the longest and Category 3 the shortest. During a median (25th–75th percentiles) follow‐up of 24 (14–36), 12.9% of the patients died. Patients in Category 3 had the overall worst outcome than had patients in Categories 1 and 2. 6MWT used as a continuous variable was a highly significant independent predictor for mortality in a multivariate Cox regression model adjusted for 16 other variables with a hazard ratio of 0.979 [(95% confidence interval 0.972–0.986), P |
| Document Type: |
article |
| File Description: |
electronic resource |
| Language: |
English |
| ISSN: |
2055-5822 |
| Relation: |
https://doaj.org/toc/2055-5822 |
| DOI: |
10.1002/ehf2.12900 |
| Access URL: |
https://doaj.org/article/547b2e03558346349a950b889370c511 |
| Accession Number: |
edsdoj.547b2e03558346349a950b889370c511 |
| Database: |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
