Increased cardiovascular risk factors in breast cancer survivors identified by routine measurements of body composition, resting heart rate and arterial blood pressure.

Purpose: The main objective of this prospective study was to obtain a better understanding of the body composition and vital sign measures of cancers survivors (CS) when compared to regular (R) patients.

Methods: A total of 9,315 female patients were evaluated: 476 CS and 8,839 R patients. Kinesiologists worked side by side with the medical/oncology team to collect a number of base-line measurements on body composition, resting heart rate, and blood pressure as part of the standard intake evaluation during the female patients' annual checkup.

Paced-walk and step tests to assess exertional dyspnea in COPD.

This study reports on the development and test-retest reproducibility of a modified shuttle walking and step testing protocols to assess exertional dyspnea in patients with COPD. Patients with COPD randomly performed four externally paced 3-min bouts of shuttle walking at 1.5, 2.