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Clinical Assessment of Spatiotemporal Gait Parameters in Patients and Older Adults
Published on: November 7, 2014
[Gait speed as an indicator of fragility in community-dwelling elders in Lima, Peru]
Luis Varela Pinedo1, Pedro José Ortiz Saavedra, Helver Chávez Jimeno
1Instituto de Gerontología, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú. igero@upch.edu.pe
Objective:
To determine the gait speed cut-off point that indicates frailty in community-dwelling elderly people in Lima, Peru.
Material And Methods:
Gait speed was measured over a distance of 8m and frailty was determined by using Fried's criteria in a sample of 246 elderly adults. A cluster analysis was applied to establish the gait speed cut-off point determining the presence of frailty.
Results:
The mean age was 69.9 years (SD: 7.6) and 59.8% were women. The frequency of frailty was 7.7% and the frequencies of comorbidity and dependency were 12.6% and 6.5%, respectively. The mean gait speed was 0.9 m/s (SD: 0.2) and the gait speed cut-off point indicating frailty was 0.7 m/s.
Conclusion:
Gait speed less than 0.7 m/s is an indicator of frailty in community-dwelling elderly people in Lima, Peru.
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