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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Sports Sci. 2022 Jul 24;40(15):1732–1740. doi: 10.1080/02640414.2022.2103622

Table 2.

Walking speed thresholds (m/s) for moderate intensity based on ROC curve analyses

Threshold (95% CIs), m/s Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%) Accuracy (%) AUC PPV (%) NPV (%)

Young 1.28 (1.07, 1.38) 54.2 81.2 60.0 0.69 91.4 32.5
Middle-aged 1.25 (1.13, 1.33) 73.8 88.9 77.2 0.90 95.7 50.0
Older-aged 1.23 (1.11, 1.33) 71.2 78.2 73.4 0.83 88.7 53.7
Whole sample 1.28 (1.13, 1.33) 58.1 88.7 65.7 0.82 93.9 41.4

Note: Young, middle- and older-aged represents participants 21–40, 41–60 and 61–85 years, respectively. Abbreviations: AUC, area under the curve; CI, confidence interval; mph, mile per hour; NPV, negative predictive value; PPV, positive predictive value; ROC, Receiver operating characteristic.