BACKGROUND
Although gait speed is a well-established predictor of mortality, it is understudied among ethnoracially diverse oldest-old cohorts. We examined the association between gait speed and all-cause mortality in an ethnoracially diverse 90+ population.
METHODS
We examined the association between gait speed and...
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