PMID: 9434667Jan 22, 1998Paper

Balance and gait performance in an urban and a rural population

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
K RingsbergI Sernbo

Abstract

To compare the differences in standing balance and gait performance between two populations, correlated with age and physical activities of daily living. A cross-sectional study. Malmö, the third largest city in Sweden, and Sjöbo, a typical agricultural community 60 km east of Malmö. Participants were 570 men and women from the urban community (urban) and 391 from the rural community (rural), born in 1938, 1928, 1918, and 1908, and women born in 1948. The two cohorts were subdivided into true urbans, who had lived only in the city (n = 269), and true rurals, who had never lived in a city (n = 354). Information about workload, housing, spare time activities, medication, and illness during different decades of life was gathered using two questionnaires. The first questionnaire was sent to the home after agreement to participate, and the second was presented at the test session. The clinical measurements were standing balance, gait speed, and step length. The urban subjects had significantly (P < .001) impaired balance compared with rural subjects. This difference increased with increasing age. The urban subjects walked faster than the rural subjects (P < .001), and the urban subjects used fewer steps than their rural counterparts...Continue Reading

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