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The Medical Research Chronic (MRC) chronic dyspnea score as well as physiological measurements obtained during cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) and the 6-minute walk test (6MWT) are shown to provide information on the severity and survival of disease.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>We prospectively recruited IPF patients and examined the relationship between the MRC score and either CPET or 6MWT parameters known to reflect physiologic derangements limiting exercise capacity in IPF patients<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>Twenty-five patients with IPF were included in the study. Significant correlations were found between the MRC score and the distance (r = -.781, p &lt; 0.001), the SPO<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub> at the initiation and the end (r = -.542, p = 0.005 and r = -.713, p &lt; 0.001 respectively) and the desaturation index (r = .634, p = 0.001) for the 6MWT; the MRC score and <jats:italic>V<\/jats:italic>O<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub> peak\/kg (r = -.731, p &lt; 0.001), SPO<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub> at peak exercise (r = -. 682, p &lt; 0.001), VE\/VCO<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub> slope (r = .731, p &lt; 0.001), VE\/VCO<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub> at AT (r = .630, p = 0.002) and the Borg scale at peak exercise (r = .50, p = 0.01) for the CPET. In multiple logistic regression analysis, the only variable independently related to the MRC is the distance walked at the 6MWT.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>In this population of IPF patients a good correlation was found between the MRC chronic dyspnoea score and physiological parameters obtained during maximal and submaximal exercise testing known to reflect ventilatory impairment and exercise limitation as well as disease severity and survival. This finding is described for the first time in the literature in this group of patients as far as we know and could explain why a simple chronic dyspnea score provides reliable prognostic information on IPF.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/1471-2466-10-32","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2010,5,28]],"date-time":"2010-05-28T18:16:04Z","timestamp":1275070564000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":64,"title":["MRC chronic Dyspnea Scale: Relationships with cardiopulmonary exercise testing and 6-minute walk test in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients: a prospective study"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Effrosyni D","family":"Manali","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Panagiotis","family":"Lyberopoulos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Christina","family":"Triantafillidou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Likourgos F","family":"Kolilekas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Christina","family":"Sotiropoulou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Joseph","family":"Milic-Emili","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Charis","family":"Roussos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Spyros A","family":"Papiris","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2010,5,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"202_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1567","DOI":"10.1097\/00000478-200212000-00004","volume":"26","author":"AL Katzenstein","year":"2002","unstructured":"Katzenstein AL, Zisman AD, Litzky AL, Nguyen BT, Kotloff RM: Usual interstitial pneumonia. 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