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Published in final edited form as: J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2019 Aug 5;20(10):1224–1229. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2019.06.002

Table 5.

Gait Speed Cut Points by Age and Sex Categories for the 2006/2008 Health and Retirement Study

Sex x Age			Mean (SE)	SD (SE)	Mean minus 1 SD (SE)	Mean minus 2 SDs (SE)
		N	cm/s	cm/s	cm/s	cm/s
Male	65-74	1,831	88.8 (0.7)	25.4 (0.5)	63.4 (0.8)	38.0 (1.3)
	75-84	1,063	76.6 (0.8)	24.5 (0.7)	52.1 (1.0)	27.6 (1.5)
	≥ 85	238	68.7 (1.3)	19.2 (1.0)	49.5 (1.7)	30.3 (2.5)
Female	65-74	2,229	82.0 (0.6)	25.1 (0.4)	57.0 (0.7)	31.9 (1.1)
	75-84	1,239	70.7 (0.7)	22.5 (0.7)	48.2 (1.0)	25.7 (1.6)
	≥ 85	383	60.7 (1.1)	20.1 (0.8)	40.6 (1.4)	20.5 (2.0)

SD: standard deviation, SE: Standard error