How do people with COPD walk? A European study on digitally measured real-world gait

In this study, we aimed to comprehensively characterise daily life gait of people with COPD using digital mobility outcomes (DMOs) derived from the Mobilise-D method, a combination of a single wearable device with a processing pipeline capable of extracting a comprehensive set of gait parameters [19–21]. Specifically, we 1) assessed the levels and distribution of gait DMOs collected in the real world in people with COPD, and 2) compared them across disease severity groups. As a secondary analysis, we compared gait DMOs of people with COPD with those of healthy older adults.