Participants characteristics of prospective fall study
| Epidemiology | Muscle strength and balance assessment | ||||
| FSHD | Controls | FSHD frequent fallers | FSHD infrequent fallers | Controls | |
| n | 72 | 49 | 8 | 10 | 10 |
| Sex (M/F) | 42/30 | 20/29 | 5/3 | 6/4 | 5/5 |
| Age (years) | 50 (1.2) | 50 (1.4) | 54 (2.5) | 49 (3.0) | 56 (2.2) |
| Height (cm) | 179 (1.1) | 173 (1.4) | 173 (2.9) | 178 (3.6) | 171 (3.1) |
| Weight (kg) | 81 (1.8) | 79 (2.4) | 80 (8.1) | 83 (5.3) | 78 (5.5) |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 25 (0.5) | 26 (0.7) | 26 (2.2) | 26 (1.4) | 27 (1.6) |
| CSS | – | – | 6.8 (0.49)** | 4.9 (0.59)** | 0 (0) |
| CSS range | – | – | 5–9 | 1–6 | 0–0 |
General characteristics for all participants and separately for those included in the muscle strength assessment. Note that the FSHD frequent fallers, infrequent fallers and controls were similar in age, height, weight and BMI, but not for the CSS.
Values are mean (SEM) unless otherwise indicated.
**p<0.01 compared with controls.
BMI, body mass index; CSS, clinical severity scale; FSHD, facioscapulohumeral disease.