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Area of Science:

  • Cardiopulmonary Physiology
  • Respiratory Medicine
  • Exercise Science

Background:

  • Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) is crucial for evaluating exertional breathlessness.
  • A lack of normative data hinders the interpretation of breathlessness responses during CPET.
  • Developing reference equations is essential for accurate clinical assessment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To create normative reference equations for breathlessness intensity during CPET.
  • To establish equations for men and women aged 40 years and older.
  • To correlate breathlessness with power output, oxygen uptake, and minute ventilation.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of healthy adults (aged >=40) from the CanCOLD study undergoing incremental cycle CPET.
  • Development of ordinal multinomial logistic regression models for breathlessness ratings.
  • External validation of models using an independent sample of healthy Canadian adults.

Main Results:

  • Developed separate normative reference equations for men and women, considering age and body mass.
  • Models demonstrated high performance, with C statistics ranging from 0.81 to 0.96 in validation.
  • Included 156 participants (43% women) with a mean age of 65 years.

Conclusions:

  • Provided normative reference equations for exertional breathlessness intensity during CPET.
  • Enables comparison of breathlessness ratings between individuals and groups.
  • Facilitates identification and quantification of abnormal breathlessness responses.