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Commentary 2 "Metabolic equivalents during the 10-m shuttle walking test for post-myocardial infarction patients"
UHL NHS Trust, Leicester, UK; sally.singh@uhl-tr.nhs.uk
Metabolic equivalents during the 10-m shuttle walking test for post-myocardial infarction patients
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One of the key aims of a cardiac rehabilitation programme is to promote an active lifestyle. Walking is arguably the most convenient form of exercise for many, and within the context of a rehabilitation programme it is cheap and transferable to a home exercise programme. It is important to assess an individual’s exercise capacity before starting an exercise programme for a number of reasons—to identify peak exercise performance for appropriate exercise prescription, safety to exercise and as an outcome measure of the programme. If walking is to be the encouraged mode of exercise it would seem sensible to identify an individual’s physiological and symptomatic responses to walking. Cardiopulmonary exercise testing facilities are not widely available and therefore field-based alternatives have been developed. The incremental shuttle walking test (ISWT) was described in the literature in 1992 for the assessment of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.1 Since then its use has
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