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Six minute walk?
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Hmm, mind shows the same amount of time. No idea what it means.
(For those looking, it's in the "Mobility" category in the Health app).
(For those looking, it's in the "Mobility" category in the Health app).
Found mine, but it says “no data”. Umm, I know I’ve walked more than six minutes. It isn’t something you have to actively turn on is it?
I looked further into it and the Data source for this data is the iphone. So this is not an Apple watch subject any more. Haha
Mine also says no data. I’Ve actually gone for a 20 minute or longer walk twice in he past week. Guess I’ll have to STEP my game up.
I can't see anyway to turn it on. I wonder if this requires a 3rd party app that tracks and calculates this? I do see that my watch is now tracking "stair speed up" and down and that started automatically with the S6 and/or wos 7,.
Since it is in the Health app, I assume it is in iOS 14... I also noticed that you can manually add data, just what I do when I do indoor cycling. So there might not be an app or device connected to this.
Also, in the Mobility section in the Health app are a bunch of other metrics that I never noticed before:
Also, in the Mobility section in the Health app are a bunch of other metrics that I never noticed before:
I did go through everything in the mobility section and everything in the screenshot seems to be phone-data except the 6min walk and stair speed up and down.
For the 6 min walk it says that the day COULD come from the watch, so this might be a future feature.
fir the stairs up/down, this is coming from the watch but it requires a higher flight than I have at home since I have no data, and with COVID, I’m staying home ...
For the 6 min walk it says that the day COULD come from the watch, so this might be a future feature.
fir the stairs up/down, this is coming from the watch but it requires a higher flight than I have at home since I have no data, and with COVID, I’m staying home ...
FYI - the "Six Minute Walk" is apparently a measure used to monitor pulmonary hypertension patients.
So I'm kinda thinking that unless your medical doctor is doing something with you on that topic, we probably needn't be concerned about it.
pulmonaryhypertensionrn.com
www.medscape.com
So I'm kinda thinking that unless your medical doctor is doing something with you on that topic, we probably needn't be concerned about it.
Six Minute Walk Test for Treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
A six minute walk is a simple noninvasive test that is used to monitor how effective treatment is for pulmonary hypertension.
Pulmonary Function Testing: Spirometry, Lung Volume Determination, Diffusing Capacity of Lung for Carbon Monoxide
Description Spirometry (Current Procedural Terminology [CPT] code 94010 [spirometry], 94060 [spirometry before and after bronchodilators]) assesses the integrated mechanical function of the lung, chest wall, and respiratory muscles by measuring the total volume of air exhaled from a full lung...
www.medscape.com
It is a metric pulmonologists and cardiologists use to estimate physical and cardiopulmonar fitness in patients with lung or heart's diseases (you name it, asthma, COPD, pulmonary fibrosis, surgically diminished lung volume, angina, etc.)
In case anyone is interested in reading more about 6MWT, here is an interesting paper by Li et al. from 3 years ago, talking about integrating gadgets and wearables to the 6MWT.
In case anyone is interested in reading more about 6MWT, here is an interesting paper by Li et al. from 3 years ago, talking about integrating gadgets and wearables to the 6MWT.
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I have no data for Stair Speed: Up & Down. I have been wearing an AW since the first gen day 1. I have an AW Series 4 now. Not sure how to get that recorded.
Mine says 495m and it only has two data points, both in November 2020. I had no idea this was there.