What Mathematical Models Are Accurate for Prescribing Aerobic Exercise in Women with Fibromyalgia?

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This article aims to verify the agreement between the standard method to determine the heart rate achieved in the ventilatory threshold 1 in the cardiopulmonary exercise testing (VT1) and the mathematical models with exercise intensities suggested by the literature in order to check the most precise for fibromyalgia (FM) patients.

Methods

Seventeen women with FM were included in this study. The VT1 was used as the standard method to compare four mathematical models applied in the literature to calculate the exercise intensity in FM patients: the well-known "220 - age" at 76%, Tanaka predictive equation "208 - 0.7 × age" at 76%, the FM model HRMax "209 - 0.85 × age" at 76%, and Karvonen Formula at 60%. Bland-Altman analysis and correlation analyses were used to exp

SUBMITTER: Villafaina S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9138585 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature