Factors associating with shuttle walking test results in community-dwelling elderly people

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research
Daiki AdachiTomoki Aoyama

Abstract

The shuttle walking test (SWT) is a simple, widely used method for assessing endurance performance in the elderly. Despite widespread community use, its associated factors are unclear. We aim to identify previously undefined SWT association factors in community-dwelling elderly people. Herein, 149 healthy elderly Japanese subjects performed the SWT, and were assessed for height, weight, smoking history, 10-m walk time, Timed Up and Go (TUG) scores, handgrip strength, skeletal mass index (SMI), forced vital capacity (FVC), forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1), cardio-ankle vascular index, and ankle brachial index. We divided men and women into higher and lower SWT score groups, compared between-group parameters, and performed stepwise multivariate logistic regression analysis to identify factors independently associated with SWT scores. Age, BMI, 10-m walk time, TUG score, SMI, FVC (L; %-predicted), and FEV1 (L; %-predicted) were significantly different between SWT score groups for men, while in women, significant differences were observed in age, TUG score, handgrip strength, FVC (L; %-predicted), and FEV1 (L; %-predicted) (p < 0.05). In the multivariate logistic regression model, 10-m walk time, and FEV1 showed significant a...Continue Reading

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