The Impact of Obesity and Weight Loss on Gait in Adults - The Mechanobiology of Obesity and Related Diseases - page 127

Table 1 Spatio-temporal gait variables in obese compared to normal weight subjects at self-selected and standardized walking speeds in gait studies

Author Mean values of variables (obese/normal weight)

Self-selected gait speed WS SL SF SP SW DS

Spyropoulos et al. [ 51 ] 1.1/1.6** 1.3/1.7** 102.8/116.1** 66/61.1** 0.2/0.1** -

de Souza et al. [ 11 ] 0.7/1.3* 1.1/1.3* 84/109.8* - 0.13/0.1* -

0.7/0.8 b 0.8/0.9 b, Vismara et al. [ 59 ] 115.6/117.8 62.2/60.1 - -

0.7/0.8 b,

Lai et al. [ 24 ] 1.1/1.3* * - 60.2/58.1* - 11.3/9.6

1.2/1.1/1.3 a Segal et al. [ 49 ] - - - - -

Russell et al. [ 48 ] 1.3/1.5* 1.5/1.6* - - - -
Ko et al. [ 23 ] 1.1/1.2 - - 64.5/63.3** 0.12/0.1** -
da Silva-Hamu et al. [ 10 ] 1.1/1.2** 1.2/1.3* 108.6/116.9* - - -
F. Silvernail et al. [ 16 ] 1.2/1.4* - - - - -
Pataky et al. [ 40 ] 1.2/1.5** 1.3/1.5** 109/122 - - -
Standardized gait speed WS SL SF SP SW DS
DeVita and Hortobágyi [ 12 ] 1.5/1.5 1.4/1.5 126/126 63.4/61.6* - -
Browning and Kram [ 7 ] 0.5/0.5 0.9/0.9 67.2/69.6 72.0/67.6 + 39.0/32.8
0.75/0.75 1.1/1.0 86.4/87.6 69.3/64.8 + 34.5/27.2
1.0/1.0 1.2/1.2 99.6/102 67.5/63.7 + 32.3/25.3
1.25/1.25 1.4/1.4 110.4/110.4 65.6/62.4 + 29.5/23.4
1.5/1.5 1.5/1.5 120.0/121.2 64.1/61.5 + 27.3/21.8
1.75/1.75 1.6/1.6 129.6/128.4 63.5/60.4 + 25.5/20.0
WS walking speed (m/s), SL stride length (m), SF step frequency (steps/min), SP stance phase (%), SW step width (m), DS double support (%), (+)
significantly higher in obese, (-) not measured in study
Significance of difference between obese and normal weight subjects *p \ 0.05; p \ 0.02; p \ 0.01; **p \ 0.001
a

Central obese/lower obese/normal weight

b

Normalized to body height