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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Izawa, Kazuhiro P.
• Watanabe, Satoshi
• Oka, Koichiro
• Hiraki, Koji
• Morio, Yuji
• Kasahara, Yusuke
• Takeichi, Naoya
• Tsukamoto, Takae
• Osada, Naohiko
• Omiya, Kazuto

Titel

Relation between physical activity and exercise capacity of ≥5 metabolic equivalents in middle- and older-aged patients with chronic heart failure

Ist Teil von

• Disability and rehabilitation, 2012-11, Vol.34 (23), p.2018-2024

Ort / Verlag

England: Informa Healthcare

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Purpose: Patients with exercise capacity of <5 metabolic equivalents (METs) are considered to have a high risk of death. The aim of this study was to determine age-related differences in physical activity associated with an exercise capacity of ≥5 METs in chronic heart failure (CHF) outpatients. Methods: We enrolled 157 stable CHF patients (79.6% men, age 60.3 ± 11.5 years). Patients were divided into two age-based groups (middle-aged, <65 years, n = 97) and (older-aged, ≥65 years, n = 60). Peak oxygen uptake (peak V O2) was assessed by cardiopulmonary exercise testing. We further divided patients into groups according to exercise capacity: ≥5 METs and <5 METs. Physical activity was assessed by measuring the average number of steps/day for 1 week with an electronic pedometer. Results: Receiver-operating characteristic curves were used to select cutoff values for steps associated with an exercise capacity of ≥5 METs in the middle- and older-aged patients. Cutoff values of 6045 steps in the middle-aged and 6070 steps in the older-aged patients were determined. Conclusions: Both middle- and older-aged CHF patients with exercise capacity of ≥5 METs completed approximately 6000 steps/day. This could become a target amount for minimal physical activity that could contribute to increased exercise capacity in CHF patients. Implications for Rehabilitation Middle-aged and older-aged chronic heart failure (CHF) patients with a measured exercise capacity of ≥5 METs completed approximately 6000 steps/day as measured by electronic pedometer. This amount of steps could become a target amount for minimal physical activity that could contribute to increased exercise capacity in CHF patients.