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Associations between body composition and gait-speed decline: results from the Health, Aging, and Body Composition study
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Background In older adults, every 0.1-m/s slower gait speed is associated with a 12% higher mortality. However, little research has identified risk factors for gait-speed decline.Objective We assessed the association between several measures of body composition and age-related decline in gait speed.Design Data were from 2306 older adults who were participating in the Health, Aging, and Body Composition cohort and were followed for 4 y (50% women; 38% black). Usual walking speed (m/s) over 20 m was measured in years 2 through 6, and the baseline and changes in several measures of body composition were included in mixed-effects models.Results Gait speed declined by 0.06 ± 0.00 m/s over the 4-y period. Baseline thigh intermuscular fat predicted the annual gait-speed decline (±SE) in both men and women (-0.01 ± 0.00 and -0.02 ± 0.00 m/s per 0.57 cm(2), respectively; P < 0.01). In men, but not in women, this relation was independent of total body adiposity. In longitudinal analyses, changes in thigh intermuscular fat and total thigh muscle were the only body-composition measures that predicted gait-speed decline in men and women combined. When modeled together, every 5.75-cm(2) increase in thigh intermuscular fat was associated with a 0.01 ± 0.00-m/s decrease in gait speed, whereas every 16.92-cm(2) decrease in thigh muscle was associated with a 0.01 ± 0.00-m/s decrease in gait speed.Conclusions High and increasing thigh intermuscular fat are important predictors of gait-speed decline, implying that fat infiltration into muscle contributes to a loss of mobility with age. Conversely, a decreasing thigh muscle area is also predictive of a decline in gait speed.
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- Beavers, K. M., Beavers, D. P., Houston, D. K., Harris, T. B., Hue, T. F., Koster, A., Newman, A. B., Simonsick, E. M., Studenski, S. A., Nicklas, B. J., & Kritchevsky, S. B.
- Affiliations
- Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist (US)
- Corresponding author
- Beavers, Kristen M
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- Venue
- The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-03
- Volume
- 97
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 552-560
- ISSN
- 0002-9165 (ISSN-L)
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- PMC3578402
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- W2156131785
- Cited by
- 259
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- 35
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- Funders
- Wake Forest University (P30 AG21332)
- National Institutes of Health (N01-AG-6-2103, N01‐AG‐6‐2106, N01-AG-6-2101)
- National Institute on Aging (N01‐AG‐6–2101, R01‐NR012459, N01-AG-6-2101, N01-AG-6-2103, and N01-AG-6-2106, R01AG028050, N01AG62106, P30AG-21332, N01-AG-62103, P30AG021332)
- National Institute of Nursing Research (R01NR012459)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology (medical) › Nutrition and Health in Aging
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation › Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Geriatrics and Gerontology › Frailty in Older Adults
- Keywords
- gait speed decline, body composition, thigh muscle area, older adults, aging, mobility loss, adiposity, sex differences, Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study
- MeSH terms
- Aged, Aging, Body Composition, Female, Gait, Health Status, Humans, Male, Prospective Studies, Risk Factors, Walking, Muscle, Skeletal
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