TOPLINE:

A simple test of walking speed before kidney transplant could predict the risk for mortality and cardiovascular events, enabling clinicians to quickly activate patients with good cardiovascular fitness and target further screening or prehabilitation to those who need it.

METHODOLOGY:

Researchers retrospectively studied 995 patients (median age, 56 years; 36% women) assessed for kidney transplant at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust from June 2014 to August 2022 to determine whether a simple walking speed test could predict the likelihood of abnormal cardiac stress test results and posttransplant outcomes.

Walking speed was assessed by timing patients as they walked 130 m along a hospital corridor — walking to the end, touching the wall at the end of the corridor, and

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