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Walking difficulty, walking speed and age as predictors of self-rated health
— the Women's Health and Aging Study | | Author(s) | Marja Jylhä, Jack M Guralnik, Jennifer Balfour |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol 56A, no 10, October 2001 |
| Pages | pp M609-M617 |
| Keywords | Older women ; Gait loss ; Mobility ; Health [elderly] ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Older people reporting disability are more likely to report poor self-rated health, but little work has been done to assess the independent relationships of reported walking difficulty and measured walking performance with self-rated health. This study examines the associations of walking difficulty, walking speed and age with self-rated health in older women. Data are from the baseline of the US Women's Health and Aging Study (WHAS). Difficulty walking a quarter of a mile was used as a measure of mobility in the representative population of 3,841 aged 65+ screened in the study, and in the one third most disabled study group of 1,002. Maximal walking speed was examined in the study group. Increased severity of walking difficulty (in both groups), slower walking speed (in the study group), and younger age were all associated with fair or poor self-rated health, after simultaneous adjustment for these and other objective measures of physical performance and health. The associations of both measures of walking with self-rated health weakened with age. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-011130209 A |
| Classmark | BD: C8G: C4: CC: 49: 7T |
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