Walking

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Not too far to walk": the influence of distance on place of delivery in a western Kenya health demographic surveillance system. 
  • A 1-y walking program and increased dietary calcium in postmenopausal women: effects on bone. 
  • A pilot study of partial unweighted treadmill training in mobility-impaired older adults. 
  • A prospective randomized wait list control trial of intravenous iron sucrose in older adults with unexplained anemia and serum ferritin 20-200 ng/mL. 
  • A randomized controlled trial of epoprostenol therapy for severe congestive heart failure: The Flolan International Randomized Survival Trial (FIRST). 
  • A randomized study of alglucosidase alfa in late-onset Pompe's disease. 
  • Adjunctive albuterol enhances the response to enzyme replacement therapy in late-onset Pompe disease. 
  • Age of achievement of gross motor milestones in infancy and adiposity at age 3 years. 
  • An apolipoprotein E-mimetic stimulates axonal regeneration and remyelination after peripheral nerve injury. 
  • An official European Respiratory Society/American Thoracic Society technical standard: field walking tests in chronic respiratory disease. 
  • An official systematic review of the European Respiratory Society/American Thoracic Society: measurement properties of field walking tests in chronic respiratory disease. 
  • Analyzing pain in rheumatoid arthritis patients. Pain coping strategies in patients who have had knee replacement surgery. 
  • Are there negative responders to exercise training among heart failure patients? 
  • Assessing exertional dyspnea in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. 
  • Assisted early mobility for hospitalized older veterans: preliminary data from the STRIDE program. 
  • Association between change in daily ambulatory activity and cardiovascular events in people with impaired glucose tolerance (NAVIGATOR trial): a cohort analysis. 
  • Association of knee and ankle osteoarthritis with physical performance. 
  • Back strength predicts walking improvement in obese, older adults with chronic low back pain. 
  • Baseline 6-min walk distance predicts survival in lung transplant candidates. 
  • Bed rest promotes reductions in walking speed, functional parameters, and aerobic fitness in older, healthy adults. 
  • Bilateral differences in gait mechanics following total ankle replacement: a two year longitudinal study. 
  • Bilateral symmetry in lower extremity mechanics during stair ascent and descent following a total hip arthroplasty: a one-year longitudinal study. 
  • Body composition in ambulatory women with multiple sclerosis. 
  • Can lay-led walking programmes increase physical activity in middle aged adults? A randomised controlled trial. 
  • Cardiac resynchronization with sequential biventricular pacing for the treatment of moderate-to-severe heart failure. 
  • Change in levels of physical activity after diagnosis of type 2 diabetes: an observational analysis from the NAVIGATOR study. 
  • Clinical tip: footplate attachment for ambulation on a ring external fixator. 
  • Comparative Effectiveness of Medical Therapy, Supervised Exercise, and Revascularization for Patients With Intermittent Claudication: A Network Meta-analysis. 
  • Constructal law: pleasure, golden ratio, animal locomotion and the design of pedestrian evacuation: comment on "The emergence of design in pedestrian dynamics: locomotion, self-organization, walking paths and the constructal law" by A. Miguel. 
  • Contemporary trends and predictors of postacute service use and routine discharge home after stroke. 
  • Continuous flow left ventricular assist device improves functional capacity and quality of life of advanced heart failure patients. 
  • Counseling for home-based walking and strength exercise in older primary care patients. 
  • Dietary nitrate supplementation enhances exercise performance in peripheral arterial disease. 
  • Economic Outcomes of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation With and Without Ambulation as a Bridge to Lung Transplantation. 
  • Effect of end-stage hip, knee, and ankle osteoarthritis on walking mechanics. 
  • Effect of increased weight on ankle mechanics and spatial temporal gait mechanics in healthy controls. 
  • Effect of laterally wedged foot orthoses on rearfoot and hip mechanics in patients with medial knee osteoarthritis. 
  • Effect of phosphodiesterase-5 inhibition on exercise capacity and clinical status in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a randomized clinical trial. 
  • Effects of exercise training amount and intensity on peak oxygen consumption in middle-age men and women at risk for cardiovascular disease. 
  • Effects of financial incentives on motivating physical activity among older adults: results from a discrete choice experiment. 
  • Effects of stroke severity and training duration on locomotor recovery after stroke: a pilot study. 
  • Endothelial Progenitor Cell Levels Predict Future Physical Function: An Exploratory Analysis From the VA Enhanced Fitness Study. 
  • Energetics of walking in elderly people: factors related to gait speed. 
  • Energy recovery in individuals with knee osteoarthritis. 
  • Estimating older adults' preferences for walking programs via conjoint analysis. 
  • Evaluation and treatment of patients with lower extremity peripheral artery disease: consensus definitions from Peripheral Academic Research Consortium (PARC). 
  • Exercise behavior, functional capacity, and survival in adults with malignant recurrent glioma. 
  • Exercise, obesity, and asthma in children and adolescents. 
  • Fear of movement, quality of life, and self-reported disability in obese patients with chronic lumbar pain. 
  • Free testosterone levels are associated with mobility limitation and physical performance in community-dwelling men: the Framingham Offspring Study. 
  • Functional effects of lymphotoxin on crushed peripheral nerve. 
  • Functional incidental training: a randomized, controlled, crossover trial in Veterans Affairs nursing homes. 
  • Functional reach: a marker of physical frailty. 
  • Gains in distance walking in a 3-month follow-up poststroke: what changes? 
  • Health status and depression remission in patients with chronic heart failure: patient-reported outcomes from the SADHART-CHF trial. 
  • Hip, Knee, and Ankle Osteoarthritis Negatively Affects Mechanical Energy Exchange. 
  • How do physiological components of balance affect mobility in elderly men? 
  • Improved fitness narrows the symptom-reporting gap between older men and women. 
  • Improvement in the mechanical efficiency of walking: an explanation for the "placebo effect" seen during repeated exercise testing of patients with heart failure. Duke University Clinical Cardiology Studies (DUCCS) Exercise Group. 
  • Improvements in speed-based gait classifications are meaningful. 
  • In vivo measurement of ACL length and relative strain during walking. 
  • Inactivity, exercise, and visceral fat. STRRIDE: a randomized, controlled study of exercise intensity and amount. 
  • Increased levels of apoptosis in gastrocnemius skeletal muscle in patients with peripheral arterial disease. 
  • Influence of stroke-related impairments on performance in 6-minute walk test. 
  • Inhibition of inducible nitric oxide synthase promotes recovery of motor function in rats after sciatic nerve ischemia and reperfusion. 
  • Isosorbide Mononitrate in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction. 
  • Knee arthrodesis with circular external fixation. 
  • Limited regional cerebellar dysfunction induces focal dystonia in mice. 
  • Lower extremity function and subsequent disability: consistency across studies, predictive models, and value of gait speed alone compared with the short physical performance battery. 
  • METs and accelerometry of walking in older adults: standard versus measured energy cost. 
  • Massage therapy for osteoarthritis of the knee: a randomized dose-finding trial. 
  • Meaningful gait speed improvement during the first 60 days poststroke: minimal clinically important difference. 
  • Measures of arch height and their relationship to pain and dysfunction in people with lower limb impairments. 
  • Menopausal status, moderate-intensity walking, and symptoms in midlife women. 
  • Metabolic syndrome predicts mobility decline in a community-based sample of older adults. 
  • Outcomes of a home-based walking program for African-American women. 
  • Physical fitness predicts functional tasks in individuals with Down syndrome. 
  • Plantar flexion: an effective training for peripheral arterial disease. 
  • Prognostic significance of functional capacity and exercise behavior in patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer. 
  • Protocol for the Locomotor Experience Applied Post-stroke (LEAPS) trial: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Proximal femoral focal deficiency: results of rotationplasty and Syme amputation. 
  • Quality of life and functional status in patients surviving 12 months after left ventricular assist device implantation. 
  • Rationale and design of the Exercise Intensity Trial (EXCITE): A randomized trial comparing the effects of moderate versus moderate to high-intensity aerobic training in women with operable breast cancer. 
  • Recruitment of African American women to a walking program: eligibility, ineligibility, and attrition during screening. 
  • Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation to SMA worsens complex movements in Parkinson's disease. 
  • Resistance exercise, disability, and pain catastrophizing in obese adults with back pain. 
  • Respiratory muscle training (RMT) in late-onset Pompe disease (LOPD): Effects of training and detraining. 
  • Retention of adaptive control over varying intervals: prevention of slip- induced backward balance loss during gait. 
  • Revascularisation plus supervised exercise is superior to supervised exercise alone for the treatment of intermittent claudication. 
  • Self-Care and Mobility Following Postacute Rehabilitation for Older Adults With Hip Fracture: A Multilevel Analysis. 
  • Sildenafil improves walk distance in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. 
  • Sildenafil preserves exercise capacity in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and right-sided ventricular dysfunction. 
  • Simultaneous object classification and segmentation with high-order multiple shape models. 
  • Six-minute walk distance predictors, including CT scan measures, in the COPDGene cohort. 
  • Six-minute-walk distance and accelerometry predict outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease independent of Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease 2011 Group. 
  • Steroid treatment and the development of scoliosis in males with duchenne muscular dystrophy. 
  • Strength training, walking, and social activity improve sleep in nursing home and assisted living residents: randomized controlled trial. 
  • Supervised vs unsupervised exercise for intermittent claudication: A systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • The Canadian experience with long-term deflazacort treatment in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. 
  • The Effect of Adductor-Canal-Blockade on Outcome after Medial Unicondylar Knee Arthroplasty: A Preliminary Study. 
  • The effect of a subject-specific amount of lateral wedge on knee mechanics in patients with medial knee osteoarthritis. 
  • The effect of foot type on in-shoe plantar pressure during walking and running. 
  • The effects of exogenous nitric oxide donor on motor functional recovery of reperfused peripheral nerve. 
  • The effects of written emotional disclosure and coping skills training in rheumatoid arthritis: a randomized clinical trial. 
  • The epidemiology of road traffic injury hotspots in Kigali, Rwanda from police data. 
  • The food industry's solution to the obesity epidemic: take a walk. 
  • The older pedestrian. 
  • The relation between hand morphology and quadrupedalism in primates. 
  • The role of smoking and other modifiable lifestyle risk factors in maintaining and restoring lower body mobility in middle-aged and older Americans: results from the HRS and AHEAD. Health and Retirement Study. Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old. 
  • Total hip arthroplasty surgical approach does not alter postoperative gait mechanics one year after surgery. 
  • Training trials in heart failure: time to exercise restraint? 
  • Understanding the adaptive value of diagonal-sequence gaits in primates: a comment on Shapiro and Raichlen, 2005. 
  • Use of the 6-min walk distance to identify variations in treatment benefits from implantable cardioverter-defibrillator and amiodarone: results from the SCD-HeFT (Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Trial). 
  • Using step activity monitoring to characterize ambulatory activity in community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Walking in old age and development of metabolic syndrome: the health, aging, and body composition study. 
  • Walking speed predicts health status and hospital costs for frail elderly male veterans. 
  • Weight-bearing physical activity among girls and mothers: relationships to girls' weight status. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Milano, Carmelo Alessio, Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery