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Slow walking speed and cardiovascular death in well functioning older adults
— prospective cohort study | | Author(s) | Julien Dumurgier, Alexis Elbaz, Pierre Ducimetière |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 339, no 7731, 21 November 2009 |
| Pages | p 1187 |
| Source | www.bmj.com |
| Keywords | Gait loss ; Mobility ; Cardiovascular diseases ; Death ; Correlation ; France. |
| Annotation | What is the relation between slow walking speed over a short distance and mortality, overall and according to main causes of death in older people living in the community? For older people, a slow walking speed over a short distance is associated with an increased risk of death, in particular of cardiovascular mortality. This is a summary of a paper that was published on bmj.com as BMJ 2009: 339:b4460. The study concerns 3,208 participants aged 65-85 living in the community recruited from 1999 to 2001 from the Dijon centre of the Three City (3C) Study in France. During follow-up, 209 deaths occurred. Mortality (per 1000 person years) was 19.2 for those with a walking speed in the lowest third (1.5 metre per second or less in men, 1.35 m/s in women) and 89.5 in those who walked faster. Participants in the lowest third of walking speed had an increased risk of all cause and cardiovascular mortality, while there was no association with mortality from cancer or other causes of death. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-091208203 A |
| Classmark | C8G: C4: CQ: CW: 49: 765 * |
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