Age and environment-related differences in gait in healthy adults using wearables

Abstract Technological advances in multimodal wearable and connected devices have enabled the measurement of human movement and physiology in naturalistic settings. The ability to collect continuous activity monitoring data with digital devices in real-world environments has opened unprecedented opp...

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Autores principales: Matthew D. Czech, Dimitrios Psaltos, Hao Zhang, Tomasz Adamusiak, Monica Calicchio, Amey Kelekar, Andrew Messere, Koene R. A. Van Dijk, Vesper Ramos, Charmaine Demanuele, Xuemei Cai, Mar Santamaria, Shyamal Patel, F. Isik Karahanoglu
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:8bf5093e50df4acb8b662d0361e1cad52021-12-02T19:17:04ZAge and environment-related differences in gait in healthy adults using wearables10.1038/s41746-020-00334-y2398-6352https://doaj.org/article/8bf5093e50df4acb8b662d0361e1cad52020-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-020-00334-yhttps://doaj.org/toc/2398-6352Abstract Technological advances in multimodal wearable and connected devices have enabled the measurement of human movement and physiology in naturalistic settings. The ability to collect continuous activity monitoring data with digital devices in real-world environments has opened unprecedented opportunity to establish clinical digital phenotypes across diseases. Many traditional assessments of physical function utilized in clinical trials are limited because they are episodic, therefore, cannot capture the day-to-day temporal fluctuations and longitudinal changes in activity that individuals experience. In order to understand the sensitivity of gait speed as a potential endpoint for clinical trials, we investigated the use of digital devices during traditional clinical assessments and in real-world environments in a group of healthy younger (n = 33, 18–40 years) and older (n = 32, 65–85 years) adults. We observed good agreement between gait speed estimated using a lumbar-mounted accelerometer and gold standard system during the performance of traditional gait assessment task in-lab, and saw discrepancies between in-lab and at-home gait speed. We found that gait speed estimated in-lab, with or without digital devices, failed to differentiate between the age groups, whereas gait speed derived during at-home monitoring was able to distinguish the age groups. Furthermore, we found that only three days of at-home monitoring was sufficient to reliably estimate gait speed in our population, and still capture age-related group differences. Our results suggest that gait speed derived from activities during daily life using data from wearable devices may have the potential to transform clinical trials by non-invasively and unobtrusively providing a more objective and naturalistic measure of functional ability.Matthew D. CzechDimitrios PsaltosHao ZhangTomasz AdamusiakMonica CalicchioAmey KelekarAndrew MessereKoene R. A. Van DijkVesper RamosCharmaine DemanueleXuemei CaiMar SantamariaShyamal PatelF. Isik KarahanogluNature PortfolioarticleComputer applications to medicine. Medical informaticsR858-859.7ENnpj Digital Medicine, Vol 3, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2020)
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Matthew D. Czech
Dimitrios Psaltos
Hao Zhang
Tomasz Adamusiak
Monica Calicchio
Amey Kelekar
Andrew Messere
Koene R. A. Van Dijk
Vesper Ramos
Charmaine Demanuele
Xuemei Cai
Mar Santamaria
Shyamal Patel
F. Isik Karahanoglu
Age and environment-related differences in gait in healthy adults using wearables
description Abstract Technological advances in multimodal wearable and connected devices have enabled the measurement of human movement and physiology in naturalistic settings. The ability to collect continuous activity monitoring data with digital devices in real-world environments has opened unprecedented opportunity to establish clinical digital phenotypes across diseases. Many traditional assessments of physical function utilized in clinical trials are limited because they are episodic, therefore, cannot capture the day-to-day temporal fluctuations and longitudinal changes in activity that individuals experience. In order to understand the sensitivity of gait speed as a potential endpoint for clinical trials, we investigated the use of digital devices during traditional clinical assessments and in real-world environments in a group of healthy younger (n = 33, 18–40 years) and older (n = 32, 65–85 years) adults. We observed good agreement between gait speed estimated using a lumbar-mounted accelerometer and gold standard system during the performance of traditional gait assessment task in-lab, and saw discrepancies between in-lab and at-home gait speed. We found that gait speed estimated in-lab, with or without digital devices, failed to differentiate between the age groups, whereas gait speed derived during at-home monitoring was able to distinguish the age groups. Furthermore, we found that only three days of at-home monitoring was sufficient to reliably estimate gait speed in our population, and still capture age-related group differences. Our results suggest that gait speed derived from activities during daily life using data from wearable devices may have the potential to transform clinical trials by non-invasively and unobtrusively providing a more objective and naturalistic measure of functional ability.
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author Matthew D. Czech
Dimitrios Psaltos
Hao Zhang
Tomasz Adamusiak
Monica Calicchio
Amey Kelekar
Andrew Messere
Koene R. A. Van Dijk
Vesper Ramos
Charmaine Demanuele
Xuemei Cai
Mar Santamaria
Shyamal Patel
F. Isik Karahanoglu
author_facet Matthew D. Czech
Dimitrios Psaltos
Hao Zhang
Tomasz Adamusiak
Monica Calicchio
Amey Kelekar
Andrew Messere
Koene R. A. Van Dijk
Vesper Ramos
Charmaine Demanuele
Xuemei Cai
Mar Santamaria
Shyamal Patel
F. Isik Karahanoglu
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title Age and environment-related differences in gait in healthy adults using wearables
title_short Age and environment-related differences in gait in healthy adults using wearables
title_full Age and environment-related differences in gait in healthy adults using wearables
title_fullStr Age and environment-related differences in gait in healthy adults using wearables
title_full_unstemmed Age and environment-related differences in gait in healthy adults using wearables
title_sort age and environment-related differences in gait in healthy adults using wearables
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