Does the 6-minute walk test predict the prognosis in patients with NYHA class II or III chronic heart failure?☆,☆☆,★
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Study population
Patients of either sex and aged 18 to 76 years were enrolled if they met the following criteria: a history of heart failure caused by systolic dysfunction known for at least 3 months and the ability to perform a symptom-limited stress test and to be monitored throughout the study period (at least 1 year). Patients had to be stabilized with drug therapy for at least 1 month. No subjects with chronic bronchitis or neurologic, skeletal, or peripheral vascular disease were included. Patients with
Study population
One hundred twenty-one patients (99 men and 22 women, mean age 59 ± 11 years) met the necessary criteria and were included in the study. Their characteristics are given in Table I. All patients were in sinus rhythm and were receiving drug treatment of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, digoxin, and diuretics. The main causes of heart failure were ischemic cardiomyopathy in 47 (29%) patients and idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy in 57 (47%) patients. Other causes (14% of cases) were
Discussion
The 6-minute walk test is a simple procedure. Its noninvasive nature, zero cost, and facility to perform make it a theoretically satisfactory method of evaluating the exercise capacity and the severity of heart failure. This procedure is, in addition, well accepted by the patients and reflects their daily activity better than more strenuous classic tests.7, 9 It is worthwhile therefore to estimate its prognostic value in common practice and to compare this with that of other well-established
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From the Cardiology Department, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Hôpital de Hautepierre.
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