Impact of Sleep Quality on Gait Variability: Pilot Cohort Study
Francesca R Marino, Minzae Kim, Phillip H Hwang, Yorghos Tripodis, Michael Alosco, Jesse Mez, Ann McKee, Rhoda Au, Robert Joseph Thomas, Ludy Shih, Jinjiao Wang · 2026
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Francesca R. Marino is lead author of a 2026 pilot cohort study on sleep quality and walking variability in middle-aged and older adults. Uneven step width while walking links to poor physical function and falls, and sleep is a changeable risk factor for both, yet its link to step width itself was unexamined.
The study included 72 adults, average age 71. They wore a ring device measuring sleep through heart and breathing signals for at least two nights. They also walked ten metres at their usual pace wearing motion sensors. Each one percent rise in sleep fragmentation raised the chance of wide step variability by six percent. Other sleep measures, including duration, efficiency, and breathing disturbance, were also examined.
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| CREATOR | Francesca R Marino, Minzae Kim, Phillip H Hwang, Yorghos Tripodis, Michael Alosco, Jesse Mez, Ann McKee, Rhoda Au, Robert Joseph Thomas, Ludy Shih, Jinjiao Wang |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42695 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |