Poor lower extremity function was associated with pre-diabetes and diabetes in older chinese people

To determine whether a relationship exists between performance-based physical assessments and pre-diabetes/diabetes in an older Chinese population. Our study population comprised 976 subjects (mean ± SD age: 67.6±6.0 years; 44.5% men) from the Hangu area of Tianjin, China. Diabetes was defined by self-reporting of a physician's diagnosis, or a fasting plasma glucose level ≥126 mg/dL; and pre-diabetes was defined as a fasting plasma glucose level ≥100 mg/dL and