No relevant association of kinematic gait parameters with Health-related Quality of Life in Parkinson's disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health-related Quality of Life (HrQoL) is probably the most important outcome parameter for the evaluation and management of chronic diseases. As this parameter is subjective and prone to bias, there is an urgent need to identify objective surrogate markers. Gait velocity has been shown to be associated with HrQoL in numerous chronic diseases, such as Parkinson's disease (PD). With the development and wide availability of simple-to-use wearable sensors and sophisticated gait algorithms, kinematic gait parameters may soon be implemented in clinical routine management. However, the association of such kinematic gait parameters with HrQoL in PD has not been assessed to date.

Methods

Kinematic gait parameters from a 20-meter walk from 43 PD patients were extracted usi

SUBMITTER: Bettecken K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5439666 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature