Validity of 6 Minutes Stepper Test in Hypertension

Ebru Calik Kutukcu

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypertension; Arterial Hypertension

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Six Minutes Stepper Test (6MST)

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06087172

GO 22/388

Details and patient eligibility

About

The six minutes stepper test (6MST) was used assess exercise capacity of individuals having different chronic conditions. In the literature, there are some validation studies analyzing validity of 6MST. In this study, the main aim was to analyse validation of 6MST in hypertensive individuals.

Full description

6MST is a space-safe, feasible and sensitive test to assess exercise capacity. In the literature, there are lots of field tests assessing exercise capacity of individuals with chronic status. But common field tests eg 6MWT requires long spaces and it could become an important barrier in clinical settings. Hypertension is a common chronic disease and hypertensive individuals are important candidates of cardiac rehabilitation. As an important outcome assesing exercise capacity are very important before and after cardiac rehabilitation. In this study, the main aim was to investigate reliability and validity of 6MST in systemic hypertension.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criterias:

• Being 18 to 65 years,
• Diagnosed with hypertension and willing to participate the study.

Exclusion Criterias:

• having a neurological, cognitive and/or orthopedic disease that affect the measurements,
• severe respiratory disease (FEV1 < 35%; FVC < 50%),
• presence of acute infection,
• any malignancy,
• dementia,
• any cardiovascular event in the last 6 months,
• uncontrolled hypertension and diabetes
• body mass index (BMI) higher than 40 kg/m2

Trial design

40 participants in 1 patient group

Hypertensive Individuals

Description:

Patients diagnosed with arterial hypertension

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Six Minutes Stepper Test (6MST)