Two-, six, and twelve-minute walking tests in respiratory disease

R Butland - BMJ

Effects of resistance training on strength, power, and selected functional abilities of women aged 75 and older.

OBJECTIVE: To determine the effects of 12 weeks of progressive resistance strength training on the isometric strength, explosive power, and selected functi...

DA Skelton，A Young，CA Greig，... - 《Journal of the American Geriatrics Society》

A Means of Assessing Maximal Oxygen Intake: Correlation Between Field and Treadmill Testing

Research from JAMA — A Means of Assessing Maximal Oxygen Intake — Correlation Between Field and Treadmill Testing

Cooper，H Kenneth - 《Jama》

Dyspnoea, disability, and distance walked: comparison of estimates of exercise performance in respiratory disease.

Forty-four patients with airway obstruction and 18 with pulmonary infiltration were studied in an attempt to correlate exercise tolerance, as assessed by a...

CR Mcgavin，M Artvinli，H Naoe，... - 《British Medical Journal》

Studies of Gait and Mobility in the Elderly

The gait and mobility of 71 subjects aged 60鈥 99 years were studied by completion of a questionnaire, by measurement of time and distance factors using a m...

FJ Imms，OG Edholm - 《Age & Ageing》

Relationships between general health measured with the sickness impact profile and respiratory symptoms, physiological measures, and mood in patients with ...

The relationship between general health measured using the Sickness Impact Profile (SIP), lung spirometry, arterial oxygen saturation during exercise, and ...

PW Jones，CM Baveystock，P Littlejohns - 《American Review of Respiratory Disease》

Physical determinants of independence in mature women

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship in mature women between muscle strength and whole body oxidative capacity and the ability to pe...

JD Posner，KK Mccully，LA Landsberg，... - 《Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation》

Comparison of maximal oxygen uptake values determined by predicted and actual methods

Twenty-four male subjects aged 17鈥 33 were given three direct tests of maximal oxygen uptake and one indirect test. The direct tests were those of Mitchell...

RG Glassford，GHY Baycroft，AW Sedgwick，... - 《Journal of Applied Physiology》

Performance, ventilation, and oxygen consumption in three different types of exercise test in patients with chronic obstructive lung disease.

Seventeen patients (six men and 11 women, mean age 66 years) with severe chronic obstructive lung disease (mean FEV1 0.8 (SD 0.3)1) performed three differe...

CR Swinburn，JM Wakefield，PW Jones - 《Thorax》

Validation of a self-administered home test of cardiorespiratory fitness

Determine the association between nutrition and bone from childhood to adulthood

DA Bailey，RJ Shephard，RL Mirwald