Combining Gait Speed and Recall Memory to Predict Survival in Late Life: Population-Based Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the relationship between gait speed, recall memory, and mortality.

Design

A cohort study (last follow-up December 2009).

Setting

Tuscany, Italy.

Participants

Individual data from 1,014 community-dwelling older adults aged 60 years or older with baseline gait speed and recall memory measurements and follow-up for a median time of 9.10 (IQR 7.1;9.3) years. Participants were a mean (SD) age of 73.9 (7.3) years, and 55.8% women. Participants walking faster than 0.8 m/s were defined as fast walkers; good recall memory was defined as a score of 2 or 3 in the 3-word delayed recall section of the Mini-Mental State Examination.

Measurements

All-cause mortality.

Results

There were 302 deaths and the overall 100 person-year death rate

SUBMITTER: Marengoni A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5682559 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature