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Evidence suggests Walking mayincreaseTolerance.
11 studies (12 claims)
Moderate consensus
Typical effective dose 80 (80–80) %across 1 dosed study
Study Claims
| Intervention | Direction | Endpoint | Type | Population | Dosage | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| supplementation of additional walking or cycle exercise training to standard cardiac rehabilitation programming | Increases - leads to significantly better | exercise tolerance | Human | elderly patients after heart surgery | Not specified | Early 4-week cardiac rehabilitation exercise training in elderly patients after heart surgery.cited 39× |
| Nordic walking (NW) training program plus education and usual care | Increases - is expected to improve | exercise tolerance | Human | patients with asthma | Supervised Nordic walking sessions three times per week. | Effectiveness of nordic walking in patients with asthma: A study protocol of a randomized controlled trial.cited 2× |
| Nordic walking (NW) training program plus education and usual care | Increases - is superior to | exercise tolerance and other health-related outcomes | Human | patients with asthma | Supervised Nordic walking sessions three times per week. | Effectiveness of nordic walking in patients with asthma: A study protocol of a randomized controlled trial.cited 2× |
| regular walking | Increases - improvements in | exercise tolerance | Human | pre-dialysis patients with CKD Stages 4 and 5 | Target venous bicarbonate levels of 29 mmol/L (intervention) vs. 24 mmol/L (standard). | Benefits of regular walking exercise in advanced pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease.cited 66× |
| regular walking | Decreases - reduced exertion to achieve the same activity | exercise tolerance | Human | pre-dialysis patients with CKD Stages 4 and 5 | Target venous bicarbonate levels of 29 mmol/L (intervention) vs. 24 mmol/L (standard). | Benefits of regular walking exercise in advanced pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease.cited 66× |
| interrupting sitting with short, moderate-intensity walking bouts | Increases - improved | glucose tolerance | Human | children | 3 minutes of moderate-intensity walking every 30 minutes. | Effects of Interrupting Children's Sedentary Behaviors With Activity on Metabolic Function: A Randomized Trial.cited 53× |
| home-based exercise by dosed walking | Increases - had increased | exercise tolerance | Human | patients after coronary bypass | Dosed walking (specific dosage not detailed). | Factors affecting adherence to physical training in the outpatient phase of rehabilitation, in patients after coronary artery bypass grafting. |
| barefoot walking program | Increases - showed significant improvements | pain tolerance | Human | people with PPHP | 4-week treadmill walking program (barefoot or shod). | Barefoot walking is beneficial for individuals with persistent plantar heel pain: A single-blind randomized controlled trial. |
| interrupting sitting with short bouts of moderate-intensity walking | Decreases - would decrease | insulin area under the curve (AUC) during an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) | Human | children with overweight or obesity | 3 minutes of moderate-intensity walking (at 80% of ventilatory threshold) every 30 minutes for 3 hours. | Effects of Interrupting Sedentary Behavior With Short Bouts of Moderate Physical Activity on Glucose Tolerance in Children With Overweight and Obesity: A Randomized Crossover Trial.cited 32× |
| 16-week walking program | No effect - examined the potential relationship | insulin response to an oral glucose tolerance test | Human | 29 physically inactive pre- and postmenopausal women with obesity (BMI, 29-35 kg/m²) | Not specified | The relationship between adiposopathy and glucose-insulin homeostasis is not affected by moderate-intensity aerobic training in healthy women with obesity.cited 6× |
| supervised walking program | Increases - improvements in | exercise tolerance | Human | women with primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) | Supervised walking three times a week. | Supervised walking improves cardiorespiratory fitness, exercise tolerance, and fatigue in women with primary Sjögren's syndrome: a randomized-controlled trial.cited 25× |
| walking with breathing program | Increases - improved | tolerance of physical activity | Human | heart failure patients | Not specified (intervention involved walking with breathing for 12 weeks) | Walking with controlled breathing improves exercise tolerance, anxiety, and quality of life in heart failure patients: A randomized controlled trial.cited 17× |
| walking combined with respiratory training along with standard rehabilitation care | Increases - significantly enhances | activity tolerance | Human | patients with CHF | Not specified | Impact of Walking and Respiratory Training on Cardiopulmonary Function and Activity Endurance in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure. |