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SUBMITTER: Bettecken K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5439666 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bettecken Kristina K Bernhard Felix F Sartor Jennifer J Hobert Markus A MA Hofmann Marc M Gladow Till T van Uem Janet M T JMT Liepelt-Scarfone Inga I Maetzler Walter W
PloS one 20170522 5
<h4>Background</h4>Health-related Quality of Life (HrQoL) is probably the most important outcome parameter for the evaluation and management of chronic diseases. As this parameter is subjective and prone to bias, there is an urgent need to identify objective surrogate markers. Gait velocity has been shown to be associated with HrQoL in numerous chronic diseases, such as Parkinson's disease (PD). With the development and wide availability of simple-to-use wearable sensors and sophisticated gait a ...[more]