Standardisation of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in chronic lung diseases: summary of key findings from the ERS task force

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich and University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
• ² Dept of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University Newcastle, Newcastle, UK.
• ³ First Dept of Respiratory Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
• ⁴ Task force co-chairs.
• ⁵ Dept of Paediatric Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, UK.
• ⁶ Sorbonne Université, INSERM, UMRS1158 Neurophysiologie Respiratoire Expérimentale et Clinique, Paris, France.
• ⁷ AP-HP Sorbonne Université, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière Charles Foix, Service des Explorations Fonctionnelles de la Respiration, de l'Exercice et de la Dyspnée du Département Médico-Universitaire "APPROCHES", Paris, France.
• ⁸ Rehabilitation Clinical Trials Center, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA.
• ⁹ Paediatric Dept, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany hebestreit@uni-wuerzburg.de.