A 6-Minute Walk Test in Adolescents with the Circulation Organs Diseases

Abstract

The results of the conventional and pair 6-minute walk tests have been studied in 56 adolescents being investigated. It has been established that the patients with myocardial patho­logy during 6 minutes of the test cover a lesser distance and at a lower speed than their healthy age-mates, and exhaustion of ­adaptation reserves has been registered in 29.2 % of such patients.

Keywords

• myocardial pathology
• adolescents
• a 6-minute walk test.