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The Clinical Respiratory Journal ORIGINAL ARTICLE Six-minute walk distance and dyspnoea scores to assess the course of COPD exacerbation in elderly patients Thomas Blankenburg, Anne Guettel, Christian Busch and Wolfgang Schuette Second Medical Clinic, Hospital Martha-Maria Halle-Doelau, Halle, Germany Abstract Key words Introduction: While the severity of stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD – dyspnoea score – exacerbation – (COPD) has been defined in a valid and relevant prognostic manner, parameters pulmonary function test – 6-min walk test that describe the course of COPD exacerbations are not yet established. Physical Correspondence performance and dyspnoea are of prognostic relevance in stable COPD. The issue Thomas Blankenburg, MD, Hospital investigated was to assess the course of COPD exacerbations to find parameters that Martha-Maria Halle-Doelau, Second Medical describe this situation better. Clinic, Roentgenstr. 1, D-06120 Halle/Saale, Methods: In 82 hospitalised patients with acute exacerbation of COPD who Germany. responded to intensified medical treatment (age 67.3 9.5 years; forced expiratory Tel: +49 345 559 1440 Fax: +49 345 559 1442 volume in 1 s 1.0l, 40% predicted), we measured the 6-min walk distance and the email: th.blankenburg@