Teste de caminhada de seis minutos em crianças, adolescentes e jovens com e sem fibrose cística

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OBJECTIVE: to evaluate patients with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) submitted to the six minute walk test (6MWT) and compare them to a healthy control group (CG).METHOD: transversal, prospective study comprising patients from a CF university reference centre and in healthy controls.6MWT was applied accordingly to ATS guidelines and repeated after 30 minutes of rest.Respiratory frequency (RF), heart rate (HR), oxygen saturation (SpO 2 ), Borg scale, nutritional status and spirometry values were analyzed.Patients on pulmonary exacerbation were excluded from the research.The SAS System for Windows® Software, Spearman's correlation and ANOVA for repeated measures were used, with p<0.05.RESULTS: fifty-five CF patients and 185 healthy individuals participated (12.2±4.3 and 11.3±4.3years, respectively).CG walked a greater distance than the CF patients in both tests (610.3±53.4mx 547.2±80.6mand 616.2±58.0mx 552.2±82.1m;p<0.0001).Walked distance correlated with age, weight and height.Both groups achieved

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