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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Exp Gerontol. 2016 Feb 17;77:46–51. doi: 10.1016/j.exger.2016.02.009

Table 1.

Sample characteristics and mobility measures and their associations with lap time variation (n=449)

Mean ± SD or n (%) Range Correlations with lap time variation, r (p) or MD±SE (p)
Demographics
Age, yrs 70.8±9.7 50.2–94.9 0.342 (<0.001)
Female 256 (56.8) - 0.024±0.038 (0.531)
White 284 (63.3) - 0.086±0.039 (0.029)
Education, yrs 17.0±2.7 8–32 0.011 (0.809)
Height, cm 167.4±9.3 141.6–192.4 −0.176 (<0.001)
Weight, kg 76.3±15.1 43.1–138.6 0.028 (0.548)
Health conditions
Former or current smokers 167 (37.2) - 0.020±0.039 (0.614)
Heart attack 13 (2.9) - −0.104±0.067 (0.360)
Hypertension 221 (49.2) - 0.085±0.038 (0.026)
Diabetes 85 (18.9) - 0.114±0.060 (0.060)
Mean diffusivity in ROIs^, unitless
Precentral gyrus 1.107±0.117 0.872–1.831 0.159 (0.001)
Postcentral gyrus 1.143±0.119 0.907–2.116 0.192 (<0.001)
Supplementary motor cortex 1.041±0.110 0.812–1.918 0.217 (<0.001)
Precuneus 1.146±0.126 0.865–1.858 0.335 (<0.001)
Putamen 0.811±0.108 0.603–1.968 0.253 (<0.001)
Caudate 0.857±0.126 0.653–2.176 0.232 (<0.001)
Thalamus Proper 0.992±0.096 0.809–2.093 0.287 (<0.001)
Middle frontal gyrus 1.125±0.090 0.916–1.415 0.204 (<0.001)
Superior parietal lobe 1.085±0.116 0.801–2.146 0.231 (<0.001)
Anterior cingulate gyrus 1.224±0.140 0.415–1.828 0.315 (<0.001)
Middle cingulate gyrus 1.183±0.120 0.924–1.855 0.291 (<0.001)
Posterior cingulate gyrus 1.236±0.133 0.925–1.710 0.333 (<0.001)
Hippocampus 1.320±0.170 0.970–2.365 0.289 (<0.001)
Parahippocampal gyrus 1.353±0.164 1.020–2.511 0.297 (<0.001)
Entorhinal area 1.388±0.287 0.903–2.844 0.178 (<0.001)
Amygdala 1.001±0.154 0.764–2.463 0.189 (<0.001)
Mobility measures
Lap time variation, sec 0.81±0.40 0.20–3.46 -
Use of walking aid 6 (1.3) - -
Mean lap time, sec 27.5±6.4 15.7–72.8 0.621 (<0.001)
Rapid gait speed, m/sec 3.7±0.9 1.9–8.7 0.383 (<0.001)

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multiplied by 1,000.