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Prevalence and Trends of Slow Gait Speed in the United States

Gait speed is a simple, effective indicator of age-related disease and disability. We sought to examine the prevalence and trends of slow gait speed in older Americans. Our unweighted analytic sample included 12,427 adults aged ≥ 65 years from the 2006–2016 waves of the Health and Retirement Study....

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Autores principales: Stover, Emily, Andrew, Sarah, Batesole, Joshua, Berntson, Maren, Carling, Chloe, FitzSimmons, Samantha, Hoang, Tyler, Nauer, Joseph, McGrath, Ryan
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10605995/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37887968
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics8050095
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author Stover, Emily
Andrew, Sarah
Batesole, Joshua
Berntson, Maren
Carling, Chloe
FitzSimmons, Samantha
Hoang, Tyler
Nauer, Joseph
McGrath, Ryan
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Batesole, Joshua
Berntson, Maren
Carling, Chloe
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description Gait speed is a simple, effective indicator of age-related disease and disability. We sought to examine the prevalence and trends of slow gait speed in older Americans. Our unweighted analytic sample included 12,427 adults aged ≥ 65 years from the 2006–2016 waves of the Health and Retirement Study. Gait speed was measured in participant residences. Persons with gait speed < 0.8 or <0.6 m/s were slow. Sample weights were used to generate nationally representative estimates. The overall estimated prevalence of slow gait speed with the <0.8 m/s cut-point was 48.6% (95% confidence interval (CI): 47.4–49.8) in the 2006–2008 waves yet was 45.7% (CI: 44.3–47.1) in the 2014–2016 waves, but this downward trend was not statistically significant (p = 0.06). The estimated prevalence of slowness with the <0.6 m/s cut-point was 21.3% (CI: 20.4–22.3) for the 2006–2008 waves, 18.5% (CI: 17.5–19.4) for the 2010–2012 waves, and 19.2% (CI: 18.2–20.2) for the 2014–2016 waves, but there were again no significant trends (p = 0.61). Our findings showed that the estimated prevalence of slow gait speed in older Americans is pronounced, and different cut-points largely inform how slowness is categorized. Continued surveillance of slowness over time will help guide screening for disablement and identify sub-populations at greatest risk for targeted interventions.
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spelling pubmed-106059952023-10-28 Prevalence and Trends of Slow Gait Speed in the United States Stover, Emily Andrew, Sarah Batesole, Joshua Berntson, Maren Carling, Chloe FitzSimmons, Samantha Hoang, Tyler Nauer, Joseph McGrath, Ryan Geriatrics (Basel) Article Gait speed is a simple, effective indicator of age-related disease and disability. We sought to examine the prevalence and trends of slow gait speed in older Americans. Our unweighted analytic sample included 12,427 adults aged ≥ 65 years from the 2006–2016 waves of the Health and Retirement Study. Gait speed was measured in participant residences. Persons with gait speed < 0.8 or <0.6 m/s were slow. Sample weights were used to generate nationally representative estimates. The overall estimated prevalence of slow gait speed with the <0.8 m/s cut-point was 48.6% (95% confidence interval (CI): 47.4–49.8) in the 2006–2008 waves yet was 45.7% (CI: 44.3–47.1) in the 2014–2016 waves, but this downward trend was not statistically significant (p = 0.06). The estimated prevalence of slowness with the <0.6 m/s cut-point was 21.3% (CI: 20.4–22.3) for the 2006–2008 waves, 18.5% (CI: 17.5–19.4) for the 2010–2012 waves, and 19.2% (CI: 18.2–20.2) for the 2014–2016 waves, but there were again no significant trends (p = 0.61). Our findings showed that the estimated prevalence of slow gait speed in older Americans is pronounced, and different cut-points largely inform how slowness is categorized. Continued surveillance of slowness over time will help guide screening for disablement and identify sub-populations at greatest risk for targeted interventions. MDPI 2023-09-25 /pmc/articles/PMC10605995/ /pubmed/37887968 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics8050095 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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