ArticleWorld journal of psychiatry2024
Performance of the walking trail making test in older adults with white matter hyperintensities.
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- Detecting the fractal physical activity pattern in aged adults with cerebral small vessel disease.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025Article
- Performance of the digital trail making test in older adults with white matter lesions.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
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backgroundSeveral studies have reported that the walking trail making test (WTMT) completion time is significantly higher in patients with developmental coordination disorders and mild cognitive impairments. We hypothesized that WTMT performance would be altered in older adults with white matter hyperintensities (WMH).
aimTo explore the performance in the WTMT in older people with WMH.
methodsIn this single-center, observational study, 25 elderly WMH patients admitted to our hospital from June 2019 to June 2020 served as the WMH group and 20 participants matched for age, gender, and educational level who were undergoing physical examination in our hospital during the same period served as the control group. The participants completed the WTMT-A and WTMT-B to obtain their gait parameters, including WTMT-A completion time, WTMT-B completion time, speed, step length, cadence, and stance phase percent. White matter lesions were scored according to the Fazekas scale. Multiple neuropsychological assessments were carried out to assess cognitive function. The relationships between WTMT performance and cognition and motion in elderly patients with WMH were analyzed by partial Pearson correlation analysis.
resultsPatients with WMH performed significantly worse on the choice reaction test (CRT) (0.51 ± 0.09 s
conclusionOlder adults with WMH showed obviously poorer WTMT performance. WTMT could be a potential indicator for cognitive and motor deficits in patients with WMH.
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