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Background: Balance efficacy starts declining from middle age. Information on the relationship be... more Background: Balance efficacy starts declining from middle age. Information on the relationship between specific sub-components of balance and gait stability in a middle-aged group is crucial to implement effective preventive measures of falls in the elderly. Methods: Healthy volunteers (n=50) between 45 to 65 years of both genders underwent a quantitative measurement of balance and gait on both single and dual-task paradigms. Results: Significant positive correlation was found between anteroposterior index (API) with Coefficient variation of Step Length of both lower limbs (r = 0 .289, p = 0.042 & r = (0.372), p =0.008 and (r = 0.444, p = 0.001 & r = 0.444, p = 0.001) at single and dual task respectively. Conclusion: API was found to be associated with gait stability in the middle age group. However, considering the crosssectional nature of this study, the inference needs to be confirmed in future studies to establish the causal relationship.
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