Recovery From Mobility Limitation in Middle-Aged African Americans: The Jackson Heart Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite evidence that African Americans shoulder a high burden of mobility limitation, little is known about factors associated with recovery.

Method

Participants from the Jackson Heart Study underwent 3 in-person exams from 2000 to 2013. Mobility limitations were assessed over this period by self-reported limitations in walking half a mile or climbing stairs during annual phone calls. The outcome of interest, recovery from mobility limitation, was defined as no mobility limitation the year following an incident event. Candidate predictor variables were assessed in logistic regression models, including sociodemographic, psychosocial, and health measures. Inverse probability weights were used to address missing data in the outcome.

Results

Among 4526 partici

SUBMITTER: Odden MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8087273 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature