Submaximal exercise testing in the assessment of interstitial lung disease secondary to systemic sclerosis: reproducibility and correlations of the 6-min walk test

M H Buch; C P Denton; D E Furst; L Guillevin; L J Rubin; A U Wells; M Matucci-Cerinic; G Riemekasten; P Emery; H Chadha-Boreham; P Charef; S Roux; C M Black; J R Seibold

doi:10.1136/ard.2006.054866

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Submaximal exercise testing in the assessment of interstitial lung disease secondary to systemic sclerosis: reproducibility and correlations of the 6-min walk test

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M H Buch University of Michigan Scleroderma Program, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
C P Denton Centre for Rheumatology, Royal Free Campus, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
D E Furst Division of Rheumatology, UCLA School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
L Guillevin Department of Internal Medicine, Hopital Cochin, Assistance Publique-Hopitaux de Paris, Universite Rene Descartes, Paris, France PubMed articles Google scholar articles
L J Rubin Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
A U Wells Interstitial Lung Disease Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital, Fulham, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
M Matucci-Cerinic Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
G Riemekasten Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charite University Hospital, Berlin, Germany PubMed articles Google scholar articles
P Emery Academic Unit of Musculoskeletal Disease, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
H Chadha-Boreham Actelion, Allschwil, Switzerland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
P Charef Actelion, Allschwil, Switzerland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
S Roux Actelion, Allschwil, Switzerland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
C M Black Centre for Rheumatology, Royal Free Campus, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
J R Seibold University of Michigan Scleroderma Program, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles

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Professor J R Seibold
University of Michigan Scleroderma Program, 3918 Taubman Centre, Box 0358, 1500 E Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0358, USA; jseibold{at}umich.edu

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Buch MH, Denton CP, Furst DE, et al

Submaximal exercise testing in the assessment of interstitial lung disease secondary to systemic sclerosis: reproducibility and correlations of the 6-min walk test

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2007;66:169-173.

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Accepted July 15, 2006
First published July 25, 2006.

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January 22, 2007

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