The Effects of Walking or Walking-with-Poles Training on Tissue Oxygenation in Patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease

Table 2

Relationships between selected variables and initial claudication and absolute walking times (𝑛=85).

Variables	ICT Pearson r	𝑃 value	AWT Pearson r	𝑃 value
StO2 at rest	.07	.51	.02	.87
Peak exercise StO2	.14	.22	.23	.04
Absolute decline in StO2 during exercise	−.19	.08	−.12	.30
Relative decline in StO2 during exercise	−.27	.01	−.17	.14
Time walked to nadir StO2 value	.42	.000	.58	.000
Recovery time to baseline StO2	−.31	.02	.26	.04
Recovery StO2 at 1 min	.37	.001	.31	.01
Recovery StO2 at 3 min	.36	.001	.37	.001
Recovery StO2 at 5 min	.28	.01	.36	.001
Exercise slope	.28	.01	.18	.11
Recovery slope	.18	.11	.21	.07

AWT: absolute walking time; ICT: initial claudication time.