| Autor: |
Rachel Cooper, Rebecca Hardy, Avan Aihie Sayer, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Kate Birnie, Cyrus Cooper, Leone Craig, Ian J Deary, Panayotes Demakakos, John Gallacher, Geraldine McNeill, Richard M Martin, John M Starr, Andrew Steptoe, Diana Kuh, HALCyon study team |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2011 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
PLoS ONE, Vol 6, Iss 11, p e27899 (2011) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1932-6203 |
| DOI: |
10.1371/journal.pone.0027899 |
| Popis: |
Using data from eight UK cohorts participating in the Healthy Ageing across the Life Course (HALCyon) research programme, with ages at physical capability assessment ranging from 50 to 90+ years, we harmonised data on objective measures of physical capability (i.e. grip strength, chair rising ability, walking speed, timed get up and go, and standing balance performance) and investigated the cross-sectional age and gender differences in these measures. Levels of physical capability were generally lower in study participants of older ages, and men performed better than women (for example, results from meta-analyses (N = 14,213 (5 studies)), found that men had 12.62 kg (11.34, 13.90) higher grip strength than women after adjustment for age and body size), although for walking speed, this gender difference was attenuated after adjustment for body size. There was also evidence that the gender difference in grip strength diminished with increasing age, whereas the gender difference in walking speed widened (p |
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