DECLINE IN OBJECTIVELY MEASURED STATIC BALANCE WITH AGING
Chitra Banarjee, Renoa Choudhury, Joon-Hyuk Park, Rui Xie, Jeffrey Stout, Ladda Thiamwong · 2023
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Description
Chitra Banarjee and co-authors measured how standing balance changes with age in 2023. Balance predicts falls, which raise the risk of disease and further falls in older adults. The team used a low-cost portable system to measure balance with eyes closed in a clear, objective way.
Seventy community-dwelling older adults, with an average age near seventy-five, were tested two to four times over about half a year. At the start, older age and higher body weight each linked to worse balance, while sex did not. Over time, older adults lost balance faster than younger ones in the group. Sex and weight did not predict that change. The authors urge age-aware reading of balance tests.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Chitra Banarjee, Renoa Choudhury, Joon-Hyuk Park, Rui Xie, Jeffrey Stout, Ladda Thiamwong |
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| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |