TY - JOUR
T1 - Make time for gait speed
T2 - Vital to staging the aging
AU - Wildes, Tanya M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 by The American Society of Hematology.
PY - 2019/7/25
Y1 - 2019/7/25
N2 - In this issue of Blood, Liu and colleagues demonstrate that gait speed is a valuable predictor of outcomes in older adults with hematologic malignancies, independent of age, performance status, comorbidities, aggressiveness of malignancy, and treatment type.1 Four hundred forty-eight adults with hematologic malignancies aged 75 years and older underwent geriatric screening at their initial consultation, including gait speed and grip strength testing, cognitive screening, and 2 frailty measures. The authors showed that gait speed predicted unplanned hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and survival, with each 0.1-m/s decrease in gait speed increasing mortality by 20%.
AB - In this issue of Blood, Liu and colleagues demonstrate that gait speed is a valuable predictor of outcomes in older adults with hematologic malignancies, independent of age, performance status, comorbidities, aggressiveness of malignancy, and treatment type.1 Four hundred forty-eight adults with hematologic malignancies aged 75 years and older underwent geriatric screening at their initial consultation, including gait speed and grip strength testing, cognitive screening, and 2 frailty measures. The authors showed that gait speed predicted unplanned hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and survival, with each 0.1-m/s decrease in gait speed increasing mortality by 20%.
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U2 - 10.1182/blood.2019001335
DO - 10.1182/blood.2019001335
M3 - Review article
C2 - 31345925
AN - SCOPUS:85070611297
SN - 0006-4971
VL - 134
SP - 334
EP - 336
JO - Blood
JF - Blood
IS - 4
ER -