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Handgrip strength and its prognostic value for mortality in Moscow, Denmark, and England.
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- Population-specific equations of age-related maximum handgrip force: a comprehensive review.PeerJ · 2024Pooled it
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- Comparing the associations between muscle strength, walking speed, and mortality in community-dwelling older adults of two birth cohorts born 28 years apart.GeroScience · 2024Article
- Muscular strength, mobility in daily life and mental wellbeing among older adult Inuit in Greenland. The Greenland population health survey 2018.International journal of circumpolar health · 2023Article
- Hand grip strength and chair stand test amongst Greenlandic Inuit: reference values and international comparisons.International journal of circumpolar health · 2021Article
- Between-study differences in grip strength: a comparison of Norwegian and Russian adults aged 40-69 years.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2021Article
- Reproducibility and agreement between three positions for handgrip assessment.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Prevalence, correlates, and mortality impacts of ventricular arrhythmia among older men and women: a population-based cohort study in Moscow.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2021Article
- Physical frailty and long-term mortality in older people with chronic heart failure with preserved and reduced ejection fraction: a retrospective longitudinal study.BMC geriatrics · 2021Article
- Handgrip Strength in Young Adults: Association with Anthropometric Variables and Laterality.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Biomarkers for Aging Identified in Cross-sectional Studies Tend to Be Non-causative.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2020Article
- Health Consequences of Sarcopenic Obesity: A Narrative Review.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2020Review
- Impact of handgrip strength on cardiovascular, cancer and all-cause mortality in the Korean longitudinal study of ageing.BMJ open · 2019Observational
- Handgrip Strength and All-Cause Mortality in Middle-Aged and Older Koreans.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Grip Strength: An Indispensable Biomarker For Older Adults.Clinical interventions in aging · 2019Review
- The Association Between Differing Grip Strength Measures and Mortality and Cerebrovascular Event in Older Adults: National Health and Aging Trends Study.Frontiers in physiology · 2018Article
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backgroundThis study compares handgrip strength and its association with mortality across studies conducted in Moscow, Denmark, and England. MATERIALS: The data collected by the Study of Stress, Aging, and Health in Russia, the Study of Middle-Aged Danish Twins and the Longitudinal Study of Aging Danish Twins, and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing was utilized.
resultsAmong the male participants, the age-standardized grip strength was 2 kg and 1 kg lower in Russia than in Denmark and in England, respectively. The age-standardized grip strength among the female participants was 1.9 kg and 1.6 kg lower in Russia than in Denmark and in England, respectively. In Moscow, a one-kilogram increase in grip strength was associated with a 4% (hazard ratio [HR] = 0.96, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.94, 0.99) reduction in mortality among men and a 10% (HR = 0.90, 95%CI: 0.86, 0.94) among women. Meanwhile, a one-kilogram increase in grip strength was associated with a 6% (HR = 0.94, 95%CI: 0.93, 0.95) and an 8% (HR = 0.92, 95%CI: 0.90, 0.94) decrease in mortality among Danish men and women, respectively, and with a 2% (HR = 0.98, 95%CI: 0.97, 0.99) and a 3% (HR = 0.97, 95%CI: 0.95, 0.98) reduction in mortality among the English men and women, respectively.
conclusionThe study suggests that, although absolute grip strength values appear to vary across the Muscovite, Danish, and English samples, the degree to which grip strength is predictive of mortality is comparable across national populations with diverse socioeconomic and health profiles and life expectancy levels.
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