Relation of Pulse Pressure to Long-Distance Gait Speed in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Findings from the LIFE-P Study

BACKGROUND: Reduced gait speed is associated with falls, late-life disability, hospitalization/institutionalization and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Aging is also accompanied by a widening of pulse pressure (PP) that contributes to ventricular-vascular uncoupling. The purpose of this stud...

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Autores principales: Heffernan, Kevin S., Manini, Todd M., Hsu, Fang-Chi, Blair, Steven N., Nicklas, Barbara J., Kritchevsky, Stephen B., Newman, Anne B., Sutton-Tyrrell, Kim, Church, Timothy S., Haskell, William L., Fielding, Roger A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3503986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23185357
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049544

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