Heart rate recovery post 6-minute walking test in obstructive sleep apnea

Kyriaki Cholidou,Effrosyni D. Manali,Fotis Kapsimalis,Ioannis K. Kostakis,Konstantinos Vougas,Davina Camargo Madeira Simoes,Evaggelos Markozannes,Ioannis Vogiatzis,Petros Bakakos,Nikolaos Koulouris,Manos Alchanatis

Heart rate recovery post 6-minute walking test in obstructive sleep apnea

2014

Kyriaki Cholidou
Effrosyni D. Manali
Fotis Kapsimalis
Ioannis K. Kostakis
Konstantinos Vougas
Davina Camargo Madeira Simoes
Evaggelos Markozannes
Ioannis Vogiatzis
Petros Bakakos
Nikolaos Koulouris
Manos Alchanatis

Purpose To examine the clinical usefulness of heart rate recovery (HRR) post 6-minute walking test (6MWT) as a simple marker of cardiovascular risk in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients in comparison to HRR post cycle ergometry, the validated and more sophisticated protocol.

Keywords:

Internal medicine
Obstructive sleep apnea
Cardiology
Diabetes mellitus
Medicine
Heart rate
Cpap treatment
Physical therapy
walking test
cycle ergometry

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