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- Breathing Rehab and Respiratory Section, College Hospitals, and you can Service out-of Rehab Sciences, Professors away from Kinesiology and you can Treatment Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Institution regarding Physiotherapy, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Brazil
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Abstract
Quantification of physical activities in daily life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease has increasing clinical interest. However, detailed comparison with healthy subjects is not available. Furthermore, it is unknown whether time spent actively during daily life is related to lung function, muscle force, or maximal and functional exercise capacity. We assessed physical activities and movement intensity with the DynaPort activity monitor in 50 patients (age 64 ± 7 years; FEV1 43 ± 18% predicted) and 25 healthy elderly individuals (age 66 ± 5 years). Patients showed lower walking time (44 ± 26 vs. 81 ± 26 minutes/day), standing time (191 ± 99 vs. 295 ± 109 minutes/day), and movement intensity during walking (1.8 ± 0.3 vs. 2.4 ± 0.5 m/second 2 ; p controlled study; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; correlates; DynaPort; triaxial accelerometer