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Table 2 Mean ± standard deviation of parameters for healthy and falls-risk elderly subjects.

From: A comparative study on approximate entropy measure and poincaré plot indexes of minimum foot clearance variability in the elderly during walking

Parameters

Heatlhy (n = 14)

Falls-risk (n = 10)

p value

Mean MFC

1.65 ± 0.75

2.01 ± 0.51

0.20004

SD MFC

0.35 ± 0.13

0.48 ± 0.16

0.0348

SD1

0.51 ± 0.19

0.72 ± 0.25

0.0309

SD2

0.89 ± 0.32

1.15 ± 0.40

0.0453

SD1/SD2

0.64 ± 0.13

0.64 ± 0.12

0.8912

ApEn

0.13 ± 0.13

0.18 ± 0.03

0.0001

  1. SD1 = Poincaré width, SD2 = Poincaré length, SD = standard deviation, ApEn = Approximate entropy.