Avaliaˋˋo da capacidade de exerc赤cio em portadores de doenˋa pulmonar obstrutiva crˋnica: comparaˋˋo do teste de caminhada com carga progressiva com o teste de caminhada com acompanhamento

作者：Rosa; Fernanda Warken; Camelier; Aquiles; Mayer; Anamaria; Jardim; Jose Roberto

来源：Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia, 2006.

DOI：10.1590/S1806-37132006000200005

• pulmonary disease
• chronic obstructive [rehabilitation]
• exercise test
• motor activity
• reproducibility of results
• walking
• exercise tolerance.

objective: to evaluate the applicability of the incremental (shuttle) walk test in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and compare the performance of those patients on the shuttle walk test to that of the same patients on the encouraged 6-minute walk test. methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted, in which 24 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were selected. in random order, patients were, after an initial practice period, submitted to a shuttle walk test and an encouraged 6-minute walk test. results: the patients obtained a higher heart rate (expressed as a percentage of that predicted based on gender and age) on the encouraged 6-minute walk test (84.1 ㊣ 11.4%) than on the shuttle walk test (76.4 ㊣ 9.7%) (p = 0.003). the post-test sensation of dyspnea (borg scale) was also higher on the encouraged 6-minute walk test. on average, the patients walked 307.0 ㊣ 89.3 meters on the shuttle walk test and 515.5 ㊣ 102.3 meters on the encouraged 6-minute walk test (p %26lt; 0.001). there was a good correlation between the two tests in terms of the distance walked (r = 0.80, p %26lt; 0.001). conclusion: the shuttle walk test is simple and easy to implement in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. the encouraged 6-minute walk test produced higher post-test heart rate and greater post-test sensation of dyspnea than did the shuttle walk test.