ArticleScientific reports2021
Walking is regulated by environmental temperature.
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- Real-world walking and activity patterns in community-dwelling older adults: a cross-sectional analysis of baseline data from the SMART-AGE trial.European review of aging and physical activity : official journal of the European Group for Research into Elderly and Physical Activity · 2026Article
- A singular, broadly-applicable model for estimating on- and off-path walking travel rates using airborne lidar data.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Modified stepping behaviour during outdoor winter walking increases resistance to forward losses of stability.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Association between daily life walking speed and frailty measured by a smartphone application: a cross-sectional study.BMJ open · 2023Article
- Metadata Framework to Support Deployment of Digital Health Technologies in Clinical Trials in Parkinson's Disease.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
The mechanisms that regulate human walking are not fully understood, although there has been substantial research. In our study, we hypothesized that, although walking can be volitionally modified, it is also involuntary and controlled by evolutionary factors, such as the relationship between temperature and movement speed in poikilotherms. This study aimed to determine the effects of environmental temperature on speed, step length, and cadence during unrestrained walking over long periods. Customers of a private insurance company were asked to use a background smartphone GPS application that measured walking parameters. Participants were 1065 app users (298 men and 767 women) aged 14-86 years. Observed walking speed and cadence were higher in winter (average maximum temperature: 10.2 °C) than in summer (average maximum temperature: 29.8 °C) (p < 0.001). The walking parameters were closely related to environmental temperature, with cadence most strongly correlated with daily maximum temperature (r = - 0.812, p < 0.001) and indicating a curvilinear relationship. A decrease in environmental temperature was found to increase cadence when the temperature was below 30 °C. The findings suggest that walking may be regulated by environmental temperature and potentially by the autonomic nervous system's response to environmental temperature.
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