Health-related XXXX test battery for adults: associations with perceived health, mobility, and back function and symptoms.

@entity1 @entity1643 @entity410 @entity158 @entity717 @entity85
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the health-related content validity of nine @entity410 tests by studying how low, mid, and high levels of @entity410 are associated with perceived health and musculoskeletal functioning. DESIGN: Cross-sectional methodological study. SETTING: A research institute for health promotion. @entity1 : Middle-aged (37 to 57 years) @entity1 (n = 245) and @entity1 (n = 253), evenly selected from five age cohorts of a random population sample. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The odds ratios (ORs) of selected health outcomes for low (least fit 20%), mid (next 40%), and high (most fit 40%) @entity410 categories in the different tests adjusted for several possible confounders. RESULTS: @entity410 , as measured by 2-km walk test, was strongly and consistently associated with perceived health and mobility (stair climbing) in both genders (range of ORs, 2.4 to 17.6), and a somewhat weaker relationship was found with leg power and with leg strength (ORs, 2.5 to 7.2). @entity1643 and upper-body strength were associated with @entity717 (ORs, 2.8 to 8.5) and with back dysfunction and @entity158 (ORs, 2.9 to 6.1). High @entity410 in back endurance in @entity1 and in balance in @entity1 were related to positive back health (ORs, 2.5 to 3.7). Body mass index was associated with @entity85 in @entity1 (ORs, 2.4 to 5.3). Balance, leg strength, and leg flexibility in @entity1 ; and leg power, trunk and leg flexibility in @entity1 were not associated with health outcomes. CONCLUSIONS: Among a middle-aged population, the majority of the evaluated @entity410 tests demonstrated health-related validity by strong associations with perceived health and musculoskeletal functioning, and by weaker associations with back symptoms.
