Association between walking speed and multimorbidity patterns in community-dwelling older adults with diabetes and/or hypertension: a latent class analysis.
Janelle Gravesande, Jinhui Ma, Lauren E Griffith, Ada Tang, Julie Richardson
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Abstract
Purpose: Diabetes (DM) plus hypertension (HTN) is a prevalent multimorbidity pattern. However, it is unclear which other diseases frequently coexist with DM and HTN and their impact on walking speed. Therefore, we identified multimorbidity patterns in community-dwelling older adults with: i) DM, ii) HTN and iii) DM + HTN and we examined the association between multimorbidity patterns and walking speed.
Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. We included 5090 community-dwelling older adults, from the National Health and Aging Trends Study, a population-based study of older adults (≥ 65 years) in the U.S. We performed latent class analysis to identify multimorbidity patterns and then performed ANCOVA to examine the association between these multimorbidity patterns and walking speed.
Results: We identified 10 unique multimorbidity patterns: low multimorbidity, joint multimorbidity, cardiovascular-joint multimorbidity, psychological-joint multimorbidity, cardiovascular multimorbidity, cardiovascular-joint-respiratory multimorbidity, Metabolic-bone-joint multimorbidity, metabolic-cardiovascular-joint multimorbidity, metabolic-psychological-joint multimorbidity, metabolic-cardiovascular-joint-respiratory multimorbidity and metabolic-joint multimorbidity. Multimorbidity patterns with larger numbers of diseases and those that included psychological conditions (depression or anxiety) were associated with slower walking speeds compared to multimorbidity patterns with somatic conditions alone (e.g., arthritis).
Conclusions: At a population level, these multimorbidity patterns may help to identify subgroups of older adults with slower walking speed who may benefit from targeted assessment and management to improve their walking speed.
Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40200-025-01598-5.
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Journal of Diabetes & Metabolic Disorders is a peer reviewed journal which publishes original clinical and translational articles and reviews in the field of endocrinology and provides a forum of debate of the highest quality on these issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, diabetes, lipid disorders, metabolic disorders, osteoporosis, interdisciplinary practices in endocrinology, cardiovascular and metabolic risk, aging research, obesity, traditional medicine, pychosomatic research, behavioral medicine, ethics and evidence-based practices.As of Jan 2018 the journal is published by Springer as a hybrid journal with no article processing charges. All articles published before 2018 are available free of charge on springerlink.Unofficial 2017 2-year Impact Factor: 1.816.
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