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. 2019 Jun 14;19:167. doi: 10.1186/s12877-019-1184-1

Table 2.

Test results and differences of test results between HG and NG before and after treatments

Hypoxic group (n = 18) Normoxic group (n = 16) Hypoxic group (n = 18) Normoxic group (n = 16) p-value
Pre Post Pre Post Delta Pre-Post Delta Pre-Post between groups
EQ-VAS (0–100) 56.11 (11.95) 77.39 (11.1) 52.38 (13.48) 70.13 (8.88) + 21.28 (+ 37.9%) + 17.75 (+ 33.9%) 0.24
TMT (0–28) 17.56 (6.08) 20.17 (4.88) 18.19 (4.59) 21 (4.29) + 2.61 (+ 14.9%) + 2.81 (+ 15.4%) 0.25
TUG (seconds) 21.13 (8.62) 17.71 (6.86) 24.14 (17.05) 17,79 (6,08) −4.44 (−21%) −6.35 (−26.3%) 0.51
Barthel Index (0–100) 86.94 (15.06) 90.56 (9.84) 86.56 (11.21) 89.69 (8.65) + 3.61 (+ 4.2%) + 3.13 (+ 3.6%) 0.56

Data are means (SD); Abbreviations: EQ VAS visual analogue scale of the EQ-5D Test, TMT Tinetti Mobility Test, TUG Timed-Up-and-Go-Test (2 missing values in NG); normal distribution was tested with Kolmogoroff-Smirnov test; p-value: the significance was calculated with the t-test