The “Walking Estimated Limitation Stated by History” (WELSH) visual tool is applicable and accurate to determine walking capacity, even in people with low literacy level

• Wendsèndaté Yves Sempore ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wendsèndaté Yves Sempore, Nafi Ouedraogo

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre Muraz, Institut National de Santé Publique, Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, Vascular Medicine Department, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d’Angers, Angers, France, UMR CNRS 6015, INSERM 1083, Institut MitoVasc, Université d’Angers, Angers, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7070-5749

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• Nafi Ouedraogo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wendsèndaté Yves Sempore, Nafi Ouedraogo

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Physiology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sourô Sanou, Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

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• Salifou Gandema,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  Affiliation Physical Medicine and Functional Rehabilitation Departement, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sourô Sanou, Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

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• Samir Henni,

  Roles Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Vascular Medicine Department, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d’Angers, Angers, France

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• Alassane Ilboudo,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sourô Sanou, Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

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• Téné Marceline Yameogo,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sourô Sanou, Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

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• Pierre Abraham

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: piabraham@chu-angers.fr

  Affiliations Vascular Medicine Department, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d’Angers, Angers, France, UMR CNRS 6015, INSERM 1083, Institut MitoVasc, Université d’Angers, Angers, France

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