Stride Length Predicts Adverse Clinical Events in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT: This meta-analysis aims to estimate the power of walking stride length as a predictor of adverse clinical events in older adults. We searched all electronic databases until April 2021 for studies reporting stride length and other spatial gait parameters, including stride velocity, stride width, step width and stride variability, and compared them with clinical outcomes in the elderly. Meta-analyses of odds ratios (ORs) of effects of stride length on clinical outcomes used the generic inverse variance method and random model effects. Clinical outcomes were major adverse events (MAEs), physical disability and mortality. Eleven cohort studies with 14,167 patients (mean age 75.4 ± 5.6 years, 55.8% female) were included in the analysis. At 33.05 months follow up, 3839 (27%) patients had clinica

SUBMITTER: Bytyci I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8235531 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature