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hls-12622	Vaish, Hina; Sharma, Digvijay	Thirty second chair stand performance is associated with six-minute walk test among postmenopausal women: inference from a cross-sectional study among women from India	2024	5	.pdf	application/pdf	4009	215	58	Influence of menopause on 30-Second Chair Stand Test The 30s CST values in the present study were 14.54 ± 2.02 stands and in a previous study on postmenopausal women with a mean age of 55.6 ± 5.0 years was 13.1 ± 3.3 stands.1 The 30s CST scores were greater than the values reported from the Indian sam- ple of women aged > 60 year (10 ± 2.9 stands) possibly due to the elder age group in the study of Sheoran & Vaish.13 Researchers have used the sit to stand movement as an indicator of lower limb strength.15,16 Menopause is related to a decline in muscle mass and strength.3 Association of 30-Second Chair Stand Test with 6-Minute Walk Test The correlations of 30s CST values had a significant associa- tion with 6MWD values in the present study in agreement with findings of reports from previous studies on young adults.18 The correlation in the present study was also moderate (r = 0.605) as in previous studies.18,24 There has been report of signifi- cant relationship between 60s sit to stand test performance and the 6MWT in healthy controls (r = 0.54) over the age of 60; significant relationship between 30s CST performance and the 6MWT (r = 0.611) in young adults.18,24 This indicates that as the sit-to-stand test performance decreases, it impacts functional capacity, in agreement with previous studies.4,18,24 The RPE scores after the 6MWT were found to be significantly correlated with RPE scores after 30s CST (r = 0.47) in agreement with previous reports.14,18 Thus, the pre- sent study aimed to explore the association of the 30-Second Chair Stand Test (30s CST) with the 6-Minute Walk Test (6MWT) among postmenopausal women.	cache/hls-12622.pdf	txt/hls-12622.txt