Table 1.
Demographic and clinical baseline characteristics of the study participants according to groups: cycling alone or functional electrical stimulation with cycling (FES-cycling).
| Cycling (n = 6) |
FES-cycling (n = 8) |
|
|---|---|---|
| Sex, M/F | 5/1 | 7/1 |
| Age (years) | 64.8 (7.0) | 62.8 (9.1) |
| BMI (kg.m−2) | 27.1 (4.4) | 28.1 (4.8) |
| Cardiac chronic disease | 2 (33%) | 5 (63%) |
| Pulmonary chronic disease | 0 (0%) | 1 (13%) |
| Intubation duration (days)a | 20.5 (15.5–27.8) | 14.5 (12.0–20.5) |
| Albumin (g/L) | 31.0 (2.7) | 29.7 (4.1) |
| Prealbumin (g/L)a | 0.2 (0.2–0.3) | 0.3 (0.3–0.3) |
| HAD depression score (0 to 10) | 3.0 (2.9) | 5.1 (3.2) |
| MMT (MRC score [0 to 60]) | 50.2 (4.8) | 47.7 (9.2) |
Data are mean (SD) for non-normal variables or n (%). Analyses with unpaired Student t-test, Mann–Whitney–Wilcoxon test or Chi2 test as appropriate showed no differences between groups. FES-cycling: functional electrical stimulation applied during cycling; BMI: body mass index; HAD: Hospital Anxiety and Depression; MMT: Manual Muscle Test using the Medical Research Council score.
a
Data are median (IQR) for non-normal variables or n (%).