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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2015 Mar;47(3):493–497. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000000434

Table 1.

Characteristics of the intermittent claudication patients included in the study.

Variables Did not achieve VT
(n = 43)		 Achieve VT
(n = 134)		 p
Age, years 63 ± 11 66 ± 10 0.071
Body mass index, kg−1m2 29.2 ± 1.1 29.6 ± 0.6 0.672
Ankle brachial index 0.64 ± 0.04 0.74 ± 0.02 0.014
Claudication onset time, seconds 87 ± 8 237 ± 15 <0.001
Peak walking time, seconds 163 ± 14 481 ± 21 <0.001
Oxygen uptake at VT, mL.kg−1.min−1 - 10.8 ± 2.4 -
Peak oxygen uptake, mL.kg−1.min−1 9.9 ± 0.5 13.0 ± 0.3 <0.001
Sex, % women 65 42 0.008
Diabetes mellitus, % yes 49 35 0.106
Hypertension, % yes 79 84 0.498
Dyslipidemia, % yes 79 83 0.577
Coronary artery disease, % yes 28 34 0.435
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, % yes 33 25 0.356

VT - Ventilatory threshold