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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of participants

From: Psychometric properties of instrumented postural sway measures recorded in community settings in independent living older adults

Variable

Validity Sample (n = 131)

Reliability subsample (n = 38)

Age, years (SD)

80.3 (7.7)

76.4 (6.5)

Female, n (%)

111 (85)

33 (87)

Race-white n (%)

110 (84)

31 (82)

Married, n (%)

28 (21)

6 (16)

Education, an (%)

70 (53)

18 (47)

Chronic conditions

 Cardiac, n (%)

24 (18)

9 (24)

 Musculoskeletal, n (%)

115 (88)

33 (87)

 Visual/Hearing, n (%)

104 (79)

24 (63)

 Diabetes, n (%)

24 (18)

13 (34)

 Cancer, n (%)

28 (21)

8 (21)

 Lung, n (%)

41 (31)

13 (34)

Total comorbidity

  > 3 conditions, n (%)

40 (31)

16 (42)

  < 3 conditions, n (%)

91 (69)

22 (58)

 BMI (kg/m2)

28.3 (7.5)

31 (10.1)

  1. adefined as attending at least some college