Characteristics of balance performance in the Chinese elderly by age and gender

BMC Geriatrics

Table 6 Categories of balance performance in the elderly by age

Age (yrs)	n	Poor (0–10)		Fair (11–17)		Good (18–20)
Age (yrs)	n	n	%	n	%	n	%
60-	511	8	1.6^a	42	8.2^a	461	90.2^a
65-	530	13	2.5^a	84	15.8^b	433	81.7^b
70-	378	18	4.8^ab	66	17.5^bc	294	77.8^b
75-	297	31	10.4^b	82	27.6^d	184	62.0^c
80-	165	37	22.4^c	47	28.5^cd	81	49.1^c
85–97	103	38	36.9^c	34	33.0^d	31	30.1^d
Total	1984	145	7.3	355	17.9	1484	74.8

A two-step cluster analysis was applied to identify group segmentations. Superscript lowercase letters (a, b, c, etc) indicated multiple comparison results among various age groups. Same letters indicated non-significant difference, different letters indicated significant differences in statistics. Significance level was 0.05

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