Effects of chest physiotherapy and aerobic exercise training on physical fitness in young children with cystic fibrosis

Table 1 Characteristics of the patients

	Mean ± SD	Min-max
Age (years)	8.25 ± 2.77	5-13
Length (cm)	120.68 ± 15.15	107-153
Weight (kg)	22.17 ± 7.63	15-39
Shwachman Clinical Score	73.93 ± 12.40	47-90
Crispin and Norman Radiologic Score	10.06 ± 5.06	4-20
VC	89.37 ± 13.81	72-107
FEV1 (%)	87.15 ± 13.12	80-109
%FEF_25-75 (%)	87.25 ± 14.89	61-112

VC- vital capacity, FEV1 (%)- Forced expiratory volume in one second, %FEF_25-75 (%)- %25-75 of forced expiratory flow.
Datas are presented as mean ± standart deviation, median (min-max).

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