HONOLULU, June 16 -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release:
Native Hawaiian adults experience mobility limitations--including challenges with agility, gait, balance and fall risk-at significantly higher rates and at younger ages than other major racial and ethnic groups in Hawaiʻi, according to new research from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa's Ha Kūpuna National Resource Center for Native Hawaiian Elders.
The study, published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Preventing Chronic Disease, analyzed mobility and functional limitations among adults aged 55 and older using data from the Hawaiʻi Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System collected between 2019 and 2021.
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