Correlation of Six-Minute Walking Performance with Quality of Life is Domain- and Gender-Specific in Healthy Older Adults

Andrey Jorge Serra, Paulo de Tarso Camillo de Carvalho, Fernanda Lanza, Camila de Amorim Flandes, Shirley Cardoso Silva, Frank Shiguemitsu Suzuki, Danilo Sales Bocalini, Erinaldo Andrade, Cezar Casarin and José Antonio Silva

PLOS ONE, 2015, vol. 10, issue 2, 1-8

Abstract: We analyzed the relationship between performance on the 6-min walk test (6MWT) and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in older subjects. Our secondary aim was to determine the distance to be completed on the 6MWT for the subject to achieve a score of 50 on the Short Form (36) Health Survey (SF-36). Associations were tested using linear correlation and multivariate linear regression. Participants were 130 healthy older individuals. The predictive performance of the 6MWT based on an SF-36 score of 50 was assessed using a receiver operating characteristic curve and its area under curve (AUC). Associations were observed between physical functioning, role-emotional, social functioning, vitality, general health score, and 6MWT performance in women, after adjusting for confounding variables (coefficients: 0.57, 0.38, 0.40, and 0.46, respectively; p

Date: 2015
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