OBJECTIVES: To assess muscle strength, aerobic capacity, and walking performance compared with normative values in chronic @entity64 @entity1 and, thereby, to investigate the potential for endurance and resistance training. Second, to study the relations between muscle strength, aerobic capacity, and walking performance using normalized test values. DESIGN: Population-based, cross-sectional study. SETTING: University hospital, outpatient clinic. @entity1 : @entity1 (N=48) aged 50 to 80 years with reduced muscle strength and walking capacity due to an @entity385 to 36 months prior to recruitment. INTERVENTIONS: None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Peak @entity26 consumption (Vo(2)peak) and isometric knee extensor muscle strength at the paretic knee were expressed as absolute and normalized values using normative data. The six-minute walk test (6MWT) and the habitual ten-meter walk test (10MWT) were secondary parameters. RESULTS: Peak Vo(2) was 77% (95% confidence interval [CI], 71-84) of the expected value, and the strength of the paretic knee was 71% (95% CI, 64-78), whereas walking speed (10MWT) was 59% (95% CI, 52-66) and walking distance (6MWT) was 59% (95% CI, 52-67). The normalized Vo(2)peak correlated to the normalized 6MWT (r=.58; P<.001) and normalized 10MWT (r=.53; P<.001). Normalized strength of the paretic knee correlated to normalized 6MWT (r=.40; P<.01) and normalized 10MWT (r=.31; P<.05). CONCLUSIONS: Lower extremity muscle strength and aerobic capacity are related to walking performance, which suggests a potential for endurance and resistance training in rehabilitation of walking performance in chronic @entity1269 after @entity64 . Correction for the influence of age, weight, and height providing normalized values improves the interpretation of severity of impairments and enables comparisons between @entity1 .

Normalized muscle strength, aerobic capacity, and walking performance in XXXX : a population-based study on the potential for endurance and resistance training.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['Patients', 'patients', 'PARTICIPANTS'] @entity64 :: ('MESH:D020521', 'Disease') :: ['stroke', 'hemiparetic stroke'] @entity1269 :: ('MESH:D010291', 'Disease') :: ['hemiparesis'] @entity26 :: ('MESH:D010100', 'Chemical') :: ['oxygen'] @entity385 :: ('MESH:D002544', 'Disease') :: ['ischemic stroke 6']
@entity64 :: (MESH:D020521,Disease) :: ['chronic stroke']
