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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 25.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2009 Jul 30;42(12):1834–1839. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2009.05.037

Table 2.

Spatial-temporal gait parameters and their relationship with age

Mean (SD) * β ** 95% CI P value
Walking speed, m/sec. 1.10 (0.20) −0.0125 −0.0171, −0.0090 <.001
Stride length, m 1.20 (0.18) −0.0060 −0.0090, −0.0030 <.001
Stride width, m 0.11 (0.02) 0.0003 −0.0005, 0.0010 0.455
Stance time, sec. 0.67 (0.08) −0.0031 −0.0050, −0.0013 <.001
Gait phase, % gait cycle
Toe Off § 63.39 (1.64) 0.0154 −0.0375, 0.0682 0.568

Hip § PH1 1.55 (2.05) 0.0447 −0.0241, 0.1136 0.203
PH2 52.90 (1.93) −0.0395 −0.0965, 0.0174 0.174
PH3 90.81 (4.82) −0.0728 −0.2449, 0.0993 0.407
PH4 98.49 (2.11) 0.0067 −0.0682, 0.0817 0.860

Knee § PK1 13.39 (1.99) −0.0038 −0.0671, 0.0594 0.906
PK2 40.21 (4.25) −0.0136 −0.1560, 0.1289 0.852
PK3 71.84 (1.98) 0.0087 −0.0749, 0.0575 0.797
PK4 92.33 (6.14) −0.0473 −0.2626, 0.1680 0.667

Ankle § PA1 5.72 (1.88) −0.0871 −0.1452, −0.0291 0.003
PA2 44.89 (3.46) 0.0218 −0.0509, 0.0945 0.557
PA3 63.61 (4.42) −0.0264 −0.1504, 0.0976 0.676
PA4 83.31 (3.04) 0.0006 −0.1050, 0.1061 0.992
*

Standard Deviation

**

Estimated coefficient for the linear model

Linear model with age after adjusted for sex, height, weight

Linear model with age after adjusted for walking speed, sex, height, weight

§

for the definitions of phases, see figure 1