Table 1.
Baseline characteristics for men and women of the different (birth) cohort populations.
Table 2.
Age- and height-adjusted mean difference in physical performance between women and men.
Fig 1.
Four physical performance measures by age and sex for two longitudinal birth cohorts 1927–1937 and 1937–1947.
Gait speed (A), chair rise speed (B), handgrip strength (C) and ability to perform the tandem balance test (D) by age for men and women. Handgrip strength in the 1927–1937 birth cohort was measured only from age 60 years and older. Balance is shown by the chance to be able to perform the tandem balance test, divided by one minus the chance to be able to perform the tandem balance test. Longitudinal data of birth cohort 1927–1937 (solid line) and 1937–1947 (dashed line).
Table 3.
Multivariate model of the longitudinal course of the height-adjusted sex difference in phsyical performance.