title: Respiratory parameters and exercise functional capacity in preeclampsia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate maximal respiratory pressures, pulmonary volumes and capacities and exercise functional capacity in pregnant women with preeclampsia.
  
  
  METHODS
  Primigravid women with preeclampsia and healthy primigravid women were evaluated by means of manovacuometry, spirometry and the 6-minute walk test.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The group with preeclampsia showed higher minute ventilation and lower forced vital capacity and exercise tolerance. The presence of preeclampsia and forced vital capacity were predictors in the six-minute walk test.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Preeclampsia showed significant alterations in the respiratory system and was associated with lower exercise tolerance; however, it did not affect respiratory muscle functions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Botucatu Medical School-UNESP, Brazil. evelise.guimaraes@bol.com.br
authors.forename: Evelise Guimarães
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: da Silva
authors.forename: Irma
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: de Godoy
authors.forename: Letícia Claúdia
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: de Oliveira Antunes
authors.forename: Elaine Gomes
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: da Silva
authors.forename: José Carlos
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Peraçoli
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005080:Exercise Test; D017079:Exercise Tolerance / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005541:Forced Expiratory Volume / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D011225:Pre-Eclampsia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012119:Respiration; D013147:Spirometry; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014797:Vital Capacity / Q000502:physiology