Prognostic Value of Usual Gait Speed in Well‐Functioning Older People—Results from the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study - Concepedia

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Prognostic Value of Usual Gait Speed in Well‐Functioning Older People—Results from the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study

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2005

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Matteo Cesari, Stephen B. Kritchevsky, B. Penninx, Barbara J. Nicklas, Eleanor M. Simonsick, Anne B. Newman, Frances A. Tylavsky, Jennifer S. Brach, Suzanne Satterfield, Douglas C. Bauer,

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Abstract

Usual gait speed of less than 1 m/s identifies persons at high risk of health-related outcomes in well-functioning older people. Provision of a clinically meaningful cutpoint for usual gait speed may facilitate its use in clinical and research settings.

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