A new European Respiratory Society (ERS) Statement has been published in ERJ reviewing the role exercise tests have in patients with chronic respiratory diseases. The review covered studies that report the evaluation or use of the incremental (or ramp) exercise test (IET), the constant work-rate exercise test (CWRET), the 6-min walk test (6MWT), the incremental shuttle walk test (ISWT) and the...

Clinical recommendations on the importance of Cardio Pulmonary Exercise Testing in Pulmonary Hypertension patients were published on the Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine. There is an increasing recognition of the potential value of cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPX) in patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH). Several CPX variables have been shown to be consistently altered in patients...

The role of cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) to provide a comprehensive assessment of exercise tolerance and responses in multiple sclerosis patients has been examined in a study on the Sports Medicine Journal. The objective of this study was to provide a comprehensive examination of outcome variables from CPET among persons with MS and healthy controls. Research on CPET in persons with...

A study from the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation & Prevention analyses the reliability of gas exchange variables derived from CPET. Gas exchange variables derived from cardiopulmonary exercise tests (CPETs) need to be reliable for evaluating interventions and clinical decision making. Whereas peak oxygen uptake (VO2) has shown to be a highly reliable parameter in patients with coronary...