Gait characteristics and their discriminative power in geriatric patients with and without cognitive impairment

Table 1 Characteristics of the 95 participants (mean ± SD)^a

	Healthy old adults (n = 25)	Cognitive intact geriatric patients (n = 31)	Cognitive impaired geriatric patients (n = 39)
Demographics
Age (years)	65 ± 5.5	79 ± 5.3	82.0 ± 7.2^{b, c}
Height (cm)	168 ± 8.6	167 ± 9.4	166 ± 8.2
Weight (kg)	71.3 ± 12.2	73.3 ± 14.6	68.0 ± 12.5
Body Mass Index	25.0 ± 3.6	26.3 ± 5.3	23.5 ± 6.2
Gait speed single task (m/s)	1.20 ± 0.10	0.88 ± 0.22	0.81 ± 0.22^{b, c}
Gait speed dual task (m/s)	1.01 ± 0.12	0.69 ± 0.19	0.68 ± 0.22^{b, c}
Cognitive function
Mini Mental State Examination	N.A.	27.4 ± 2.3	23.9 ± 3.8^d
Benton’s Temporal Orientation	N.A.	4.2 ± 13.8	17.1 ± 29.9^d
Enhanced Cued Recall	N.A.	14.9 ± 1.7	10.5 ± 4.4^d
Clock drawing	N.A.	11.8 ± 1.8	9.8 ± 2.6^d
Verbal fluency	N.A.	18.2 ± 6.6	12.3 ± 4.1^d
Geriatric syndromes
Charlson Comorbidity Index	N.A.	1.9 ± 1.8	1.7 ± 1.3
Handgrip strength (kg)	N.A.	26.3 ± 6.4	26.0 ± 7.2
Medication use (number)	N.A.	6.4 ± 4.1	5.5 ± 3.4

^aSignificance set at 5%. ^b significant difference between healthy old adults and geriatric patients; ^c significant difference between healthy old adults and cognitive impaired geriatric patients; ^d significant difference between geriatric and cognitive impaired geriatric patients. N.A. Not applicable

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