Value of five- repetition sit- to- stand test in clinical evaluation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
L Yanhua
ZHU Shunfang
ZENG Xiaoli
CHEN Yanjun
LIU Dan
MOU Jingjing
LIU Laiyu
ZOU Fei
Abstract：Objective To investigate the value of five-repetition sit-to-stand test (5STS) in clinical evaluation of elderly patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Methods Fifty-one patients with COPD and 20 healthy individuals were enrolled in this study. All the participants underwent 5STS, pulmonary function examination, and 6 min walking test (6MWT) and were evaluated for severity of dyspnea (by mMRC) and BODE index during the tests. Results All the participants completed 5STS test with a good reproducibility of the time used for 3 sessions of the test (P<0.001). The mean time used by COPD patients for 5STS was significantly longer than that by healthy individuals (12.93 ± 3.11s vs 0.72 ± 0.71 s, P=0.002). The results of 5STS showed a significant negative correlation with those of 6MWT in the case group and control group with correlation coefficients of-0.611 and-0.682, respectively. The results of 5STS were negatively correlated with FEV1%Pre and body mass index (P<0.05) but positively with mMRC and BODE index in COPD patients (P<0.05). Conclusion 5STS is a simple and reproducible test to evaluate the patients' exercise capacity and the severity of COPD, and is well correlated with the current methods for clinical evaluation of COPD.
Keywords：five-repetition sit-to-stand testchronic obstructive pulmonary diseasewalking test
Publication Date：2016-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 477-481 )