Poorer people suffer greater declines in physical function as they age (IMAGE)

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Poorer people suffer greater declines in physical function as they age

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Associations between wealth and functional ageing trajectories for gait speed, grip strength, and lung function in ELSA and CLSA. Lines represent predicted trajectories estimated from the mixed-effects models. Note that the y axes have been inverted for consistency of presentation across outcomes. Mixed-effects models included age, age2, birth year, as well as sex, race, height (gait speed and grip strength only), wealth, and their interaction with linear age as covariates. ELSA=English Longitudinal Study of Ageing; CLSA=Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging; FEV=Forced Expiratory Volume.

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Schrempft S, et al., 2026, PLOS Medicine, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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