Sitting-rising_test
Sitting-rising test
Clinical test for mortality risk
The sitting-rising test is a clinical test which provides a significant and efficient prediction of mortality risk in the elderly. It was initially developed by Brazilian researchers in exercise physiology and sports medicine in the 1990s. The test involves sitting on the floor, then returning to a standing position from the floor. Results are scored out of ten total points, divided between the two tasks.[1]
A 2012 study with sex- and age-reference sitting-rising test (SRT) scores derived from 6141 adults appeared in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology with other evaluation charts in the supplemental materials.[2]