Classification of Patients Based on Dyspnea and Desaturation During Exercise in Interstitial Lung Disease.

ABSTRACT: Background: Dyspnea and desaturation during exercise are essential assessment items for pulmonary rehabilitation. Characterizing patients using these 2 factors may be important for providing more effective pulmonary rehabilitation. This study aimed to categorize subjects with interstitial lung disease (ILD) using dyspnea and desaturation at the end of the 6-min walk test (6MWT). Methods: This was a retrospective study including 230 stable subjects with ILD who underwent 6MWT in our out-patient department at a general hospital in Japan. The modified Borg scale and oxygen saturation determined by S_pO2 at the end of the 6MWT were used for cluster analysis using the k-means method with k = 4. Results: Subjects were classified into 4 char

SUBMITTER: Otake K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11824878 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature