Fear of Falling, Lower Extremity Strength, and Physical and Balance Performance in Older Adults with Diabetes Mellitus

Table 2

of lower extremity muscle torque, fear of falling, mCTSIB, and timed up and go test.

	ONDM	ODM-0	ODM-1	ODM-2	ODM-3
	()	()	()	()	()
Lower extremity muscle torque (Nm)
Knee extensors
Knee flexors
Ankle plantar flexors
Ankle dorsiflexors
Total
Fear of falling
Total^#
Physical domain^#
Environmental domain^#
Psychological domain^#
mCTSIB-Tol^$
Timed up and go (s)^$

 = number of participants; ONDM = older adults without diabetes; ODM-0 = older adults with diabetes without failed performance on mCTSIB; ODM-1 = older adults with diabetes who failed on one condition of mCTSIB; ODM-2 = older adults with diabetes who failed on two conditions of mCTSIB; ODM-3 = older adults with diabetes who failed on more than two conditions of mCTSIB. ^#Adjusted values based on the sum of lower extremity torque as covariate using ANCOVA. ^$Adjusted values based on covariates of the sum of lower extremity torque and the psychological domain of fear of falling using ANCOVA. ^aSignificantly different than ONDM (). ^bSignificantly different than ODM-0 (). ^cSignificantly different than ODM-1 (). ^dSignificantly different than ODM-2 ().