Evaluation of Physical Capacity of Patients with Chronic Heart Failure by a 6-Minute Walk Test.

Title: Evaluation of Physical capacity of Patients with Chronic Heart failure by 6-Minute Walk Test. The aim of research: To evaluate physical insufficiency of patients with Chronic Heart Failure Research goals: 1)To evaluate physical capabilites of patients. 2)To evaluate NT-proBNP elevation and physical capacity correlation. 3)To evaluate relationship between left ventricular ejection fraction and patients physical capacity 4)To evaluate physical acticity capability and NYHA functional class Methods: There were analyzed 71 patients medical histories, all of those patients were treated in Kaunas klinikinė ligoninė, during 2018 year. All of the patients were treated for chronic heart failure as one of their ilnesses. The required statistical information was acquired from medical documents and SPSS 24,0 and Microsoft Excel 2013 programs were used to make statistical calculations. Significance factor used were p=0.05 Results: There were 47male which represented(66.2%) and 24 females which represented (33.8%) The average age of patients were 71,31 ± 11,72 years (min 44years and maximum 91 year) The greatest part of patients 27(38%) represent NYHA III class. 25 (35%) NYHA IV class. 19 (27%) patients NYHA II class. Raised NT-proBNP (maximum normal value is at 14,8pmol/l) were diagnosed to 63 (88,73%) of patients. Average NT-proBNP value were at 421,15 ± 549,12 pmol/l. (min result 12,0 pmol/l, max result – 4228,0 pmol/l). Average distance walked by patients were 212,02±127,17m. Average BMI were 29,48±3,86%. Average patient age were 71,31±11,72years. Conclusions: Lower Left ventricle ejection fraction was LVEF,(0.05