Interactions of sex and aging on spatiotemporal metrics in non-pathological gait: a descriptive meta-analysis

Non-dimensional gait speed analysis suggests that gait speed differences between men and women may be an artifact of size rather than sex. In both raw and dimensionless data, this analysis indicates that men may take longer step lengths than women, and women may have a higher cadence than men. This analysis also identified a possible increase in many metrics between 20 and 40 years of age, before decreasing around the fifth decade of life. Future studies should examine these trends across the entire lifespan.