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February 2, 2011
In Today's Issue
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- How Your walking Speed Can Predict Life Expectancy...
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How Your walking Speed Can Predict Life Expectancy...
Dear Reader,
Just by measuring how fast an older person can walk, physicians may be able to tell how many years that patient has left to live. A new analysis that appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that a formula that includes gait predicted older people's future life span almost as well as accounting for conditions like blood pressure and heart disease.
Slower walking is associated with getting old, and by age 80 walking speed is from 10% to 20% slower than in younger people.
While walking speed might not be the perfect window into how many years you have left, the study findings show there's evidence to support the assumption that older people can't walk easily when they are in poor health.
According to study lead Dr. Stephanie Anne Studenski, a geriatrics specialist; the capacity to move is a powerful reflection of body health, vitality and life expectancy, especially in older people.
In the report, the team combined and analyzed the results of nine studies that involved 34,485 subjects over 65 years old. Gait speed was calculated using distance in meters and seconds.
All of the subjects were told to walk at their typical pace and start from a standing position. The average speed was 3 feet a second, which works out to about 2 miles per hour. The studies examined how fast people walked, and then followed them for as long as 21 years.
The current analysis found that walking speed was directly linked to survival.
Those who walked faster (about 2.25 mph) tended to live longer than might be expected by their age or gender alone, with slower walkers (about 1.36 mph) dying sooner.
Lifespan predictions based on walking speed were as accurate as those that relied on whether a person had a condition like high blood pressure or obesity, was a smoker or had been hospitalized.
Walking is an easy way to measure well being because it calls for body support, timing and power, and it puts demands on the brain, spinal column, muscles and joints, heart and lungs.
Does this mean that those who walk more slowly are destined to die sooner?
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How Your walking Speed Can Predict Life Expectancy... Continued...
There's no evidence that this is so according to the experts, or that you can
live longer if you up your walking speed. Studenski cautions that experts are
not advising anyone to walk faster, your own body chooses the speed that's right
for you.
In general, a walking speed of 2.5 miles an hour is considered very good; a speed
of 1.6 miles an hour or less is often a sign of medical issues. Once these problems
are corrected, the person usually can move faster.
While the ability of walking speed to predict life span is only "statistically
fair" according to the researchers, the findings are valuable because they give
doctors another tool to use when assessing health.
Having an inexpensive, safe and easy way of make this assessment can only be
a good thing. Today many physicians make an evaluation of a patient just by looking
at the person; which is a surprisingly subjective examination. Gait speed is
a far more standardized way to get a hint at the health status of an older patient.
To your good health,
Kirsten Whittaker
Daily Health Bulletin Editor
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Sources:
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=124290
MedicineNet info on walking;
http://www.medicinenet.com/walking/article.htm
Stephanie Anne Studenski, M.D., M.P.H., professor geriatric medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine:
http://www.upmc.com/MEDIARELATIONS/EXPERTS/
Pages/expertspage.aspx?expertid=235
Study abstract in the Jan. 5, 2010, Journal of the American Medical Association:
http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/305/1/50.abstract
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