Research Article
The Relationship between Locomotive Syndrome and Depression in Community-Dwelling Elderly People
Table 2
Comparison of characteristics between the non-LS
and LS
groups.
| | Non-LS | LS | p value |
| Participants (%) | 210 (86.07) | 34 (13.93) | | Male (%) | 73 (34.76) | 6 (17.65) | 0.0479 | Age (years; mean (SD)) | 67.72 (6.24) | 71.91 (6.37) | 0.0005 | Height (cm; mean (SD)) | 156.49 (8.15) | 147.06 (24.79) | 0.0002 | Body weight (kg; mean (SD)) | 57.53 (10.86) | 56.74 (11.20) | 0.6952 | Body mass index (kg/m2; mean (SD)) | 23.42 (3.20) | 24.88 (3.84) | 0.0246 | GDS-15 (points; mean (SD)) | 2.85 (2.72) | 4.62 (3.53) | 0.0005 | Depression | 52 (24.76) | 15 (44.12) | 0.0190 |
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Non-LS: non-locomotive syndrome, GLFS-25 score < 16 points LS: locomotive syndrome, GLFS-25 score ≥ 16 points SD: standard deviation Pearson’s chi-square test Wilcoxon signed-rank test Student’s t-test.
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