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Ulrik Dalgas1, Kaare Severinsen, Kristian Overgaard
1Department of Sport Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. dalgas@sport.au.dk
Objective:
To investigate the relationship between a short walking test and a long walking test in patients with walking disability due to multiple sclerosis (MS) or stroke.
Design:
Cross-sectional observational study.
Setting:
University hospital and sport science department.
Participants:
Patients with MS (n=38), patients with stroke (n=48), and healthy subjects (n=46). Patients were participants in other clinical trials.
Interventions:
Not applicable.
Main Outcome Measure:
Walking speed in a 10m walk test and a 6 minute walk test was compared.
Results:
Despite differences in absolute walking speed between long and short tests, strong correlations were found between both the tests in patients with MS (r=.95) and in patients with stroke (r=.94), whereas a more moderate correlation was found in healthy controls (r=.69-.70).
Conclusions:
Our findings show that walking speeds of a short walking test and a long walking test are strongly correlated in both patients with MS and patients with stroke, whereas correlations in healthy subjects are weaker.
