Socioeconomic status, non-communicable disease risk factors, and walking speed in older adults: multi-cohort population based study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the association of low socioeconomic status and risk factors for non-communicable diseases (diabetes, high alcohol intake, high blood pressure, obesity, physical inactivity, smoking) with loss of physical functioning at older ages.

Design

Multi-cohort population based study.

Setting

37 cohort studies from 24 countries in Europe, the United States, Latin America, Africa, and Asia, 1990-2017.

Participants

109 107 men and women aged 45-90 years.

Main outcome measure

Physical functioning assessed using the walking speed test, a valid index of overall functional capacity. Years of functioning lost was computed as a metric to quantify the difference in walking speed between those exposed and unexposed to low socioeconomic status and risk fa

SUBMITTER: Stringhini S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5865179 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature