Real-world walking cadence in people with COPD

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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. Severe exacerbations during a 12-month follow-up were recorded from patient reports and medical registries.

Results: Participants were mostly male (80%) and had mean±sd age of 68±8 years, post-bronchodilator forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1) of 57±19% predicted and walked 6880±3926 steps·day-1. Mean walking cadence was 88±9 steps·min-1, followed a normal distribution and was highly stable within-person (intraclass correlation coefficient 0.92, 95% CI 0.90-0.93). After adjusting for age, sex, height and number of walking bouts in fractional polynomial or linear regressions, walking cadence was positively associated with FEV1, 6-min walk distance, physical activity (steps·day-1, time in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, vector magnitude units, walking time, intensity during locomotion), physical activity experience and health-related quality of life and negatively associated with breathlessness and depression (all p<0.05). These associations remained after further adjustment for daily steps. In negative binomial regression adjusted for multiple confounders, walking cadence related to lower number of severe exacerbations during follow-up (incidence rate ratio 0.94 per step·min-1, 95% CI 0.91-0.99, p=0.009).

Conclusions: Higher real-world walking cadence is associated with better COPD status and lower severe exacerbations risk, which makes it attractive as a future prognostic marker and clinical outcome.

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Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

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ERJ open research - 10(2024), 2 vom: 19. März

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Englisch

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Delgado-Ortiz, Laura [VerfasserIn]
Ranciati, Saverio [VerfasserIn]
Arbillaga-Etxarri, Ane [VerfasserIn]
Balcells, Eva [VerfasserIn]
Buekers, Joren [VerfasserIn]
Demeyer, Heleen [VerfasserIn]
Frei, Anja [VerfasserIn]
Gimeno-Santos, Elena [VerfasserIn]
Hopkinson, Nicholas S [VerfasserIn]
de Jong, Corina [VerfasserIn]
Karlsson, Niklas [VerfasserIn]
Louvaris, Zafeiris [VerfasserIn]
Palmerini, Luca [VerfasserIn]
Polkey, Michael I [VerfasserIn]
Puhan, Milo A [VerfasserIn]
Rabinovich, Roberto A [VerfasserIn]
Rodríguez Chiaradia, Diego A [VerfasserIn]
Rodriguez-Roisin, Robert [VerfasserIn]
Toran-Montserrat, Pere [VerfasserIn]
Vogiatzis, Ioannis [VerfasserIn]
Watz, Henrik [VerfasserIn]
Troosters, Thierry [VerfasserIn]
Garcia-Aymerich, Judith [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 07.03.2024

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1183/23120541.00673-2023

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NLM369344871