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Gait Characteristics in Nondisabled Community-Residing Nonagenarians
Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation, v 87(4), pp 541-545
01 Apr 2006
PMID: 16571395
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Abstract
Kristhnamurthy M, Verghese J. Gait characteristics in nondisabled community-residing nonagenarians.
To determine gait performance in community-residing nonagenarians.
Nested case-control study.
Community.
Thirty-one nondisabled nonagenarians (17 women) and 170 young-old controls (age range, 70−85y) participating in a longitudinal study.
Not applicable.
Systematic clinical and quantitative gait assessments. We also examined the association of gait velocity with death over a 1-year period.
Nonagenarian men had better performance on all quantitative gait parameters examined compared with women. Male sex (β=.58; 95% confidence interval [CI], 9.95−38.89) and depressive symptoms (β=−.34; 95% CI, −6.73 to −0.04) were independently associated with gait velocity in multivariate linear regression models. The 6 hypertensive nonagenarians on angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors had faster gait velocity (median, 103.1cm/s) compared with the 8 hypertensive nonagenarians not on ACE inhibitors (median, 77.5cm/s;
P=.029). Nonagenarians had worse quantitative gait parameters compared with the young-old controls, although the differences were less marked when subjects with clinically normal gaits in both groups were compared. Gait velocity did not predict survival over 1-year follow-up.
Gait characteristics in nondisabled community-residing nonagenarians are associated with male sex, depressive symptoms, and medications. The quantitative gait measures in this sample of nondisabled nonagenarians provide a yardstick to compare younger-age groups.
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- Title
- Gait Characteristics in Nondisabled Community-Residing Nonagenarians
- Creators
- Mahesh Krishnamurthy - New York UniversityJoe Verghese - Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Publication Details
- Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation, v 87(4), pp 541-545
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Number of pages
- 5
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Medicine (Graduate)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000237045800013
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-33645347038
- Other Identifier
- 991021932696504721
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- Rehabilitation
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