Sentence examples for a measure of exercise from inspiring English sources

"Is this heart disease or just deconditioning?" Measurements and Diagnoses Duration on a treadmill is a measure of exercise capacity — the workload the body can achieve expressed as metabolic equivalents, or METs, a multiple of the amount of oxygen the body uses at rest.

But it did provide a measure of exercise.

In both tests, the time-to-exhaustion was assessed as a measure of exercise tolerance.

Correlation coefficients between SGRQ scores and a measure of exercise capacity are presented in Table  3.

The Borg rating of perceived exertion [ 17] was used as a measure of exercise intensity and monitored throughout the intervention.

Despite a growing interest in rehabilitation of the critically ill patient [ 22], there remains limited data describing the metabolic cost of exercise within the critically ill; with few studies reporting VO2 as a measure of exercise response.

Despite being stable in acute conditions (Das Gupta and Abbi 2003), the second marker of iron metabolism, a soluble transferrin receptor, is less useful as a measure of exercise-induced changes in iron status owing to its lack of standardization.

The six-minute walk test (6MWT) is a measure of functional exercise capacity widely used in the assessment of lung diseases including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) [ 8].

The 6-minute walk test is a measure of submaximal exercise performance and has been validated as a safe, reliable, and repeatable measure of functional status and endurance performance in elderly people.

Besides, their more pronounced skeletal muscle weakness and decreased six-minute walk distance (6MWD, a measure of functional exercise capacity), are risk factors for future exacerbations and higher mortality [ 9, 13].

The answers to the questions were combined into a measure of amount of exercise expressed by the total number of minutes of exercise per week.