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. 2014 Sep 17;36(5):9713. doi: 10.1007/s11357-014-9713-5

Table 2.

Physical activity and physical function

Y O p value
Physical activity n = 17 n = 16
 Wear timea (min day−1) 865 ± 185 858 ± 72 0.887
 Activeb (min day−1) 464 ± 128 209 ± 88 0.257
 PA (ct day−1,000) 267 ± 114 220 ± 63 0.156
 LPA (min day−1) 422 ± 114 487 ± 90 0.085
 MVPA (min day−1) 42 ± 24 21 ± 15 0.001
Physical function
 Foot tapc (no. in 10 s) 56 ± 7 45 ± 7 <0.001
 Stair climbd (s) 2.8 ± 0.4 3.8 ± 0.8 <0.001
 Stair descendd (s) 2.6 ± 0.4 3.6 ± 1.1 0.001
 Chair rise × 10e (s) 11.8 ± 3.1 14.9 ± 4.1 0.022
 400-m walkf (s) 222 ± 20 274 ± 30 <0.001

Data presented as mean ± SD. Physical activity data from one older subject missing for technical reasons; 400-m walk data missing from one older and one younger subject

PA total physical activity by accelerometer, LPA time spent in sedentary-to-low PA, MVPA time spent in moderate-to-vigorous PA

aTime spent wearing accelerometer

bTime spent in nonzero PA

cNumber of foot taps in 10 s

dTime to climb and descend, respectively, eight steps

eTime to rise from a chair ten times

fTime to walk 400 m