Comparing the associations between muscle strength, walking speed, and mortality in community-dwelling older adults of two birth cohorts born 28 years apart.

ABSTRACT: Reduced age-specific mortality and increased muscle strength and walking speed of current older adults may have altered the relationships between these factors as more people may be above the reserve capacity threshold. We compared the cross-sectional associations between muscle strength and walking speed, and the associations of muscle strength and walking speed with five-year mortality between two population-based cohorts of 75- and 80-year-old people born 28 years apart. Maximal isometric grip and knee extension strength and walking speed were measured in 2017-2018 (n = 726). Mortality was ascertained from registers. The associations were compared with data of same-aged people studied in 1989-1990 with identical protocols (n = 500). The knee extension strength-walking speed relationship

SUBMITTER: Koivunen K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10828148 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature