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Hierarchical regression models were performed to identify the contribution of contextual, lifestyle\/anthropometric, disease, and impairment variables to walking speed and to ethnic differences in walking speed.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The ethic difference in unadjusted mean walking speed (Mexican Americans=1.17 m\/s, European Americans=1.29 m\/s) was fully explained by adjustment for contextual (ie, age, sex, education, income) and lifestyle\/anthropometric (ie, body mass index, height, physical activity) variables; adjusted mean walking speed in both ethnic groups was 1.23 m\/s. Contextual variables explained 20.3% of the variance in walking speed, and lifestyle\/anthropometric variables explained an additional 8.4%. Diseases (ie, diabetes, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) explained an additional 1.9% of the variance in walking speed; impairments (ie, FEV1, upper leg pain, and lower extremity strength and range of motion) contributed an additional 5.5%. 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