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The 6-min walk test in patients with COPD: walk this way!
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As the co-chairs of the joint American Thoracic Society/European Thoracic Society (ATS/ERS) task force on field exercise testing we noted with interest the work by Beekman et al,1 who describe reference values for a 6-min walk test (6MWT) performed around a 10 m course. These authors have previously shown that walk distances on this track provoke a significantly shorter distance than on …
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Contributors All authors contributed to the text and approved the letter prior to submission. SJS is responsible for the overall content as guarantor.
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Competing interests None.
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