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Abstract

The objective of this study was to analyze walking speed as a predictor of functional disability (FD) in the elderly. This cross-sectional, epidemiological study was carried out in a Municipality of the State of Bahia, in the Northeastern Region of Brazil, with a probabilistic sample of 310 elderly people with an average age of 71.62 (SD = 8.15) years old, enrolled in the Family Health Units of the municipality. Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves were constructed and the criterion discriminating the walking speed of 2.44 m (seconds) for functional disability was determined. The walking times that best discriminated the FD were ≥12.83 seconds for men and ≥10.77 seconds for women. It was concluded that walking speed has a good ability to discriminate the FD in the elderly and it can be used in the gerontological evaluation and in the survey of the health conditions of the elderly.

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Title
Velocidade de caminhada como preditora da incapacidade funcional em idosos
Author
Kelly Nascimento Lago; Saulo Vasconcelos Rocha; Natália Silva Oliveira; Tatiana Lima Brandão; Andree Phillipe Pimentel Coutinho; Murillo Santos Souza
Section
Artículos
Publication year
2019
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educacion
ISSN
15140105
e-ISSN
23142561
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Spanish; English; Portuguese
ProQuest document ID
2310724032
Copyright
© 2019. This work is licensed under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.