Laura Delgado-Ortiz, Saverio Ranciati, Ane Arbillaga-Etxarri, Eva Balcells, Joren Buekers, Heleen Demeyer, Anja Frei, Elena Gimeno-Santos, Nicholas S Hopkinson, Corina de Jong, Niklas Karlsson, Zafeiris Louvaris, Luca Palmerini, Michael I Polkey, Milo A Puhan, Roberto A Rabinovich, Diego A Rodríguez Chiaradia, Robert Rodriguez-Roisin, Pere Toran-Montserrat, Ioannis Vogiatzis, Henrik Watz, Thierry Troosters, Judith Garcia-Aymerich
INTRODUCTION: The clinical validity of real-world walking cadence in people with COPD is unsettled. Our objective was to assess the levels, variability and association with clinically relevant COPD characteristics and outcomes of real-world walking cadence. METHODS: We assessed walking cadence (steps per minute during walking bouts longer than 10 s) from 7 days' accelerometer data in 593 individuals with COPD from five European countries, and clinical and functional characteristics from validated questionnaires and standardised tests...
March 2024: ERJ Open Research