Age independency of mobility decrease assessed using the Locomotive Syndrome Risk Test in elderly with disability: a cross-sectional study

Table 3 Correlations between the three test scores and age in the support-level elderly (n = 40)

		Age	Two-step test score	Total GLFS-25 score	Stand-up test score
Age	Pearson’s r		−0.242	−0.054	−0.179
Age	P-value		0.132	0.740	0.270
Two-step test score	Pearson’s r			−0.424 ^*	0.325 ^*
Two-step test score	P-value			0.006	0.041
Total GLFS-25 score	Pearson’s r				−0.175
Total GLFS-25 score	P-value				0.279
Stand-up test score	Pearson’s r
Stand-up test score	P-value
Sex	Spearman’s rho	−0.002	−0.037	−0.016	0.297
Sex	P-value	0.989	0.823	0.992	0.062

*p < 0.05 two-tailed; Statistically significant correlations at the p < 0.05 level were italicized; Pearson’s r Pearson’s correlation coefficient, Spearman’s rho Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient, GLFS Geriatric Locomotive Function Scale

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