The six-minute walk test, the easiest first-line test to assess cardiac fitness is regarded as new simple, with no cost, clinical tool to judge cardiac fitness among so many costly stress test, ECG, TMT, Doppler, Echocardiography, Holter, Radioisotope scans and Intervention and otherwise Angiography and pressure gradient monitoring investigations which are some time risky having morbidities and mortality too. The six-minute walk test (6MWT) is the easiest test to assess cardiac fitness. It measures the distance (recorded in meters) a person can walk on a hard, flat surface in 6 minutes.
While the test is primarily used to assess exercise tolerance in chronic respiratory disease and heart failure, it may also be used to measure exercise capacity in healthy older adults. 6MWT is an inexpensive, simple to do and easy to administer test, requires no special equipment or specially trained…
