Mobility, the ability to move in one’s environment, is an essential feature of human functioning.¹ Among older adults, mobility disability is more frequent in women than in men and differences are largely unexplained. Results from the Established Populations Epidemiologic Study of the Elderly (EPESE) showed that the prevalence of mobility disability in women increased from 22% at age 70 to 62% at age 80, whereas in men disability reached only 15% and 38% at comparable ages.² This gender gap in mobility disability in old age was narrower and had decreased in recent decades in Sweden.³ In less industrialized countries, gender mobility disability differences are larger. Using data from the SABE surveys (SAlud BienEstar, or Health and Wellbeing) on older people in seven Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) cities,⁴ we found a mobility disability prevalence odds ratio for women compared with men of 2.4, when controlling for life course exposures and health factors.⁵

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队列简介：国际人口老龄化研究（IMIAS）

移动性是在人的环境中移动的能力，是人类功能的基本特征。¹在老年人中，女性比男性更容易行动不便，并且很大程度上无法解释差异。已建立的老年人群流行病学研究（EPESE）的结果表明，女性行动不便的患病率从70岁的22％上升到80岁的62％，而男性的残障程度在可比较的年龄分别仅为15％和38％ 。²在瑞典，老年人行动不便的性别差距缩小了，近几十年来有所缩小。³在工业化程度较低的国家，性别流动性残疾差异更大。使用SABE调查的数据（SAlud BienEstar或“健康与福祉” ）在控制生活过程中的接触因素和健康因素时，我们对七个拉丁美洲和加勒比（LAC）城市中的老年人进行了研究[ ^4]，发现女性的行动不便患病率比为2.4。⁵