The Connection between Handgrip Strength and Mortality/Morbidity

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Orawan Prasitsiriphon, Wiraporn Pothisiri (2018) Associations of Grip Strength and Change in Grip Strength With All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality in a European Older Population, Clinical Medicine Insights: Cardiology, doi:10.1177/1179546818771894

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Aliae A.R. Mohamed-Hussein, Hoda A. Makhlouf, Zahraa I. Selim, Waleed Gamaleldin Saleh (2018) Association between hand grip strength with weaning and intensive care outcomes in COPD patients: A pilot study, Clinical Respiratory Journal 12(10), p. 2475-2479, url, doi:10.1111/crj.12921

Mark D. Peterson, Paul M. Gordon, Sonja Smeding, Paul Visich (2018) Grip Strength Is Associated with Longitudinal Health Maintenance and Improvement in Adolescents, Journal of Pediatrics 202, doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2018.07.020

Nicholas C. Harvey, Anders Odén, Eric Orwoll, Jodi Lapidus, Timothy Kwok, Magnus K. Karlsson, Björn E. Rosengren, Eva Ribom, Cyrus Cooper, Peggy M. Cawthon, John A. Kanis, Claes Ohlsson, Dan Mellström, Helena Johansson, Eugene McCloskey (2018) Measures of Physical Performance and Muscle Strength as Predictors of Fracture Risk Independent of FRAX, Falls, and aBMD: A Meta-Analysis of the Osteoporotic Fractures in Men (MrOS) Study, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, Wiley-Blackwell, url, doi:10.1002/jbmr.3556

Kate A. Duchowny, P. J. Clarke, M. D. Peterson (2018) Muscle Weakness and Physical Disability in Older Americans: Longitudinal Findings from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study, Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging 22(4), p. 501-507, pubmed, doi:10.1007/s12603-017-0951-y

Carlos A. Celis-Morales, Paul Welsh, Donald M. Lyall, Lewis Steell, Fanny Petermann, Jana Anderson, Stamatina Iliodromiti, Anne Sillars, Nicholas Graham, Daniel F. MacKay, Jill P. Pell, Jason M.R. Gill, Naveed Sattar, Stuart R. Gray (2018) Associations of grip strength with cardiovascular, respiratory, and cancer outcomes and all cause mortality: Prospective cohort study of half a million UK Biobank participants, BMJ (Online) 361, p. k1651, BMJ Publishing Group, pubmed, doi:10.1136/bmj.k1651

Carlos A. Celis-Morales, Donald M. Lyall, Lewis Steell, Stuart R. Gray, Stamatina Iliodromiti, Jana Anderson, Daniel F. Mackay, Paul Welsh, Thomas Yates, Jill P. Pell, Naveed Sattar, Jason M. R. Gill (2018) Associations of discretionary screen time with mortality, cardiovascular disease and cancer are attenuated by strength, fitness and physical activity: findings from the UK Biobank study, BMC Medicine 16(1), p. 77, BioMed Central, url, doi:10.1186/s12916-018-1063-1

Carlos A. Celis-Morales, Donald M. Lyall, Lewis Steell, Stuart R. Gray, Stamatina Iliodromiti, Jana Anderson, Daniel F. Mackay, Paul Welsh, Thomas Yates, Jill P. Pell, Naveed Sattar, Jason M. R. Gill (2018) Associations of discretionary screen time with mortality, cardiovascular disease and cancer are attenuated by strength, fitness and physical activity: findings from the UK Biobank study, BMC Medicine 16(1), p. 77, url, doi:10.1186/s12916-018-1063-1

Rocío Menéndez-Colino, Teresa Alarcon, Pilar Gotor, Rocío Queipo, Raquel Ramírez-Martín, Angel Otero, Juan I. González-Montalvo (2018) Baseline and pre-operative 1-year mortality risk factors in a cohort of 509 hip fracture patients consecutively admitted to a co-managed orthogeriatric unit (FONDA Cohort), Injury 49(3), p. 656-661, url, doi:10.1016/j.injury.2018.01.003

Sebastian E. Beyer, Mihir M. Sanghvi, Nay Aung, Alice Hosking, Jackie A. Cooper, José Miguel Paiva, Aaron M. Lee, Kenneth Fung, Elena Lukaschuk, Valentina Carapella, Murray A. Mittleman, Soren Brage, Stefan K. Piechnik, Stefan Neubauer, Steffen E. Petersen (2018) Prospective association between handgrip strength and cardiac structure and function in UK adults, PLoS ONE 13(3), doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0193124

Michael Harris-Love, Kimberly Benson, Erin Leasure, Bernadette Adams, Valerie McIntosh (2018) The Influence of Upper and Lower Extremity Strength on Performance-Based Sarcopenia Assessment Tests, Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology 3(4), p. 53, MDPI AG, doi:10.3390/jfmk3040053

Carlos A Celis-Morales, Paul Welsh, Donald M Lyall, Lewis Steell, Fanny Petermann, Jana Anderson, Stamatina Iliodromiti, Anne Sillars, Nicholas Graham, Daniel F Mackay, Jill P Pell, Jason M R Gill, Naveed Sattar, Stuart R Gray (2018) Associations of grip strength with cardiovascular, respiratory, and cancer outcomes and all cause mortality: prospective cohort study of half a million UK Biobank participants, BMJ 361, p. k1651, British Medical Journal Publishing Group, pubmed, doi:10.1136/BMJ.K1651

Thomas Lykke Christiansen, Imran Khan Niazi, Kelly Holt, Rasmus Wiberg Nedergaard, Jens Duehr, Kathryn Allen, Paul Marshall, Kemal S. Türker, Jan Hartvigsen, Heidi Haavik (2018) The effects of a single session of spinal manipulation on strength and cortical drive in athletes, European Journal of Applied Physiology 118(4), p. 737-749, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, url, doi:10.1007/s00421-018-3799-x

Carlos A. Celis-Morales, Donald M. Lyall, Jana Anderson, Stamatina Iliodromiti, Yu Fan, Uduakobong E. Ntuk, Daniel F. Mackay, Jill P. Pell, Naveed Sattar, Jason M.R. Gill (2017) The association between physical activity and risk of mortality is modulated by grip strength and cardiorespiratory fitness: Evidence from 498 135 UK-Biobank participants, European Heart Journal 38(2), p. 116-122, url, doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehw249

Anna Oksuzyan, Panayotes Demakakos, Maria Shkolnikova, Mikael Thinggaard, James W. Vaupel, Kaare Christensen, Vladimir M. Shkolnikov (2017) Handgrip strength and its prognostic value for mortality in Moscow, Denmark, and England, PLoS ONE 12(9), doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0182684

J. C. Menant, F. Weber, J. Lo, D. L. Sturnieks, J. C. Close, P. S. Sachdev, H. Brodaty, S. R. Lord (2017) Strength measures are better than muscle mass measures in predicting health-related outcomes in older people: time to abandon the term sarcopenia?, Osteoporosis International 28(1), p. 59-70, doi:10.1007/s00198-016-3691-7

Carlos A. Celis-Morales, Fanny Petermann, Li Hui, Donald M. Lyall, Stamatina Iliodromiti, James McLaren, Jana Anderson, Paul Welsh, Daniel F. Mackay, Jill P. Pell, Naveed Sattar, Jason M.R. Gill, Stuart R. Gray (2017) Associations between diabetes and both cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality are modified by grip strength: Evidence from UK Biobank, a prospective population-based cohort study, Diabetes Care, doi:10.2337/dc17-0921

Pacharee Manoy, Pongsak Yuktanandana, Aree Tanavalee, Wilai Anomasiri, Srihatach Ngarmukos, Thanathep Tanpowpong, Sittisak Honsawek (2017) Vitamin D supplementation improves quality of life and physical performance in osteoarthritis patients, Nutrients, doi:10.3390/nu9080799

Mark D. Peterson, Kate Duchowny, Qinqin Meng, Yafeng Wang, Xinxin Chen, Yaohui Zhao (2017) Low Normalized Grip Strength is a Biomarker for Cardiometabolic Disease and Physical Disabilities among U.S. and Chinese Adults, Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences 72(11), p. 1525-1531, url, doi:10.1093/gerona/glx031

Holly Emma Syddall, Leo David Westbury, Richard Dodds, Elaine Dennison, Cyrus Cooper, Avan Aihie Sayer (2017) Mortality in the Hertfordshire Ageing Study: Association with level and loss of hand grip strength in later life, Age and Ageing 46(3), doi:10.1093/ageing/afw222

Miroslav Kovarik, Vera Joskova, Anna Patkova, Vladimir Koblizek, Zdenek Zadak, Miloslav Hronek (2017) Hand grip endurance test relates to clinical state and prognosis in COPD patients better than 6-minute walk test distance, International Journal of COPD 12, doi:10.2147/COPD.S144566

Youngwon Kim, Katrien Wijndaele, Duck-chul Lee, Stephen J. Sharp, Nick Wareham, Soren Brage (2017) Independent and joint associations of grip strength and adiposity with all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality in 403,199 adults: the UK Biobank study, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, p. ajcn156851, url, doi:10.3945/ajcn.117.156851

Nora E. Fritz, Caitlin J. McCarthy, Diane E. Adamo (2017) Handgrip strength as a means of monitoring progression of cognitive decline – A scoping review, Ageing Research Reviews 35, doi:10.1016/j.arr.2017.01.004

Jochanan Stessman, Yakir Rottenberg, Matan Fischer, Aliza Hammerman-Rozenberg, Jeremy M. Jacobs (2017) Handgrip Strength in Old and Very Old Adults: Mood, Cognition, Function, and Mortality, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 65(3), doi:10.1111/jgs.14509

Yili Wu, Weijing Wang, Tianwei Liu, Dongfeng Zhang (2017) Association of Grip Strength With Risk of All-Cause Mortality, Cardiovascular Diseases, and Cancer in Community-Dwelling Populations: A Meta-analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 18(6), p. 551.e17-551.e35, url, doi:10.1016/j.jamda.2017.03.011

Kate A Duchowny, Mark D Peterson, Philippa J Clarke (2017) Cut Points for Clinical Muscle Weakness Among Older Americans., American journal of preventive medicine 53(1), p. 63-69, Elsevier, pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2016.12.022

D. K. Daphnee, Sheila John, Anil Vaidya, Anand Khakhar, S. Bhuvaneshwari, Anand Ramamurthy (2017) Hand grip strength: A reliable, reproducible, cost-effective tool to assess the nutritional status and outcomes of cirrhotics awaiting liver transplant, Clinical Nutrition ESPEN 19, doi:10.1016/j.clnesp.2017.01.011

Der-Sheng Han, Ke-Vin Chang, Chia-Ming Li, Yu-Hong Lin, Tung-Wei Kao, Keh-Sung Tsai, Tyng-Grey Wang, Wei-Shiung Yang (2016) Skeletal muscle mass adjusted by height correlated better with muscular functions than that adjusted by body weight in defining sarcopenia, Scientific Reports 6(1), p. 19457, url, doi:10.1038/srep19457

Antoneta Granic, Karen Davies, Carol Jagger, Thomas B.L. Kirkwood, Holly E. Syddall, Avan A. Sayer (2016) Grip Strength decline and its determinants in the very old: Longitudinal findings from the Newcastle 85+ study, PLoS ONE 11(9), doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0163183

Bjørn Heine Strand, Rachel Cooper, Astrid Bergland, Lone Jørgensen, Henrik Schirmer, Vegard Skirbekk, Nina Emaus (2016) The association of grip strength from midlife onwards with all-cause and cause-specific mortality over 17 years of follow-up in the Tromsø Study, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 70(12), p. 1214-1221, url, doi:10.1136/jech-2015-206776

Ellen Oosting, Thomas J Hoogeboom, Jaap J Dronkers, Marlieke Visser, Reinier P Akkermans, Nico L U Van Meeteren (2016) The Influence of Muscle Weakness on the Association Between Obesity and Inpatient Recovery From Total Hip Arthroplasty, The Journal of Arthroplasty, url, doi:10.1016/j.arth.2016.12.037

Mark D. Peterson, Peng Zhang, Kate A. Duchowny, Kyriakos S. Markides, Kenneth J. Ottenbacher, Soham Al Snih (2016) Declines in strength and mortality risk among older mexican americans: Joint modeling of survival and longitudinal data, Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences 71(12), p. 1646-1652, url, doi:10.1093/gerona/glw051

Bjørn Heine Strand, Rachel Cooper, Astrid Bergland, Lone Jørgensen, Henrik Schirmer, Vegard Skirbekk, Nina Emaus (2016) The association of grip strength from midlife onwards with all-cause and cause-specific mortality over 17 years of follow-up in the Tromsø Study, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, url, doi:10.1136/jech-2015-206776

Yeo Hyung Kim, Kwang Il Kim, Nam Jong Paik, Ki Woong Kim, Hak Chul Jang, Jae Young Lim (2016) Muscle strength: A better index of low physical performance than muscle mass in older adults, Geriatrics and Gerontology International 16(5), p. 577-585, doi:10.1111/ggi.12514

Hannah G. Lawman, Richard P. Troiano, Frank M. Perna, Chia Yih Wang, Cheryl D. Fryar, Cynthia L. Ogden (2016) Associations of Relative Handgrip Strength and Cardiovascular Disease Biomarkers in U.S. Adults, 2011-2012, American Journal of Preventive Medicine 50(6), doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2015.10.022

Nitin Rangrao Gaikwad, Sudhir Jagdishprasad Gupta, Amol Rajendra Samarth, Tushar Hiralal Sankalecha (2016) Handgrip dynamometry: A surrogate marker of malnutrition to predict the prognosis in alcoholic liver disease, Annals of Gastroenterology 29(4), p. 509-514, pdf, doi:10.20524/aog.2016.0049

Vinod Chainani, Sameer Shaharyar, Kairavee Dave, Vivek Choksi, Sharmila Ravindranathan, Ram Hanno, Omar Jamal, Abir Abdo, Nidal Abi Rafeh (2016) Objective measures of the frailty syndrome (hand grip strength and gait speed) and cardiovascular mortality: A systematic review, International Journal of Cardiology 215, doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.04.068

Yu Nofuji, Shoji Shinkai, Yu Taniguchi, Hidenori Amano, Mariko Nishi, Hiroshi Murayama, Yoshinori Fujiwara, Takao Suzuki (2016) Associations of Walking Speed, Grip Strength, and Standing Balance With Total and Cause-Specific Mortality in a General Population of Japanese Elders., Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 17(2), p. 184.e1-7, pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.jamda.2015.11.003

Bjørn Heine Strand, Rachel Cooper, Astrid Bergland, Lone Jørgensen, Henrik Schirmer, Vegard Skirbekk, Nina Emaus (2016) The association of grip strength from midlife onwards with all-cause and cause-specific mortality over 17 years of follow-up in the Tromsø Study, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 70(12), p. 1214-1221, url, doi:10.1136/jech-2015-206776

Maren S. Fragala, Dawn E. Alley, Michelle D. Shardell, Tamara B. Harris, Robert R. McLean, Douglas P. Kiel, Peggy M. Cawthon, Thuy Tien L. Dam, Luigi Ferrucci, Jack M. Guralnik, Stephen B. Kritchevsky, Maria T. Vassileva, Vilmunder Gudnason, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Annemarie Koster, Anne Newman, Kristin Siggeirsdottir, Suzanne Satterfield, Stephanie A. Studenski, Anne M. Kenny (2016) Comparison of Handgrip and Leg Extension Strength in Predicting Slow Gait Speed in Older Adults, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 64(1), p. 144-150, doi:10.1111/jgs.13871

K. A. Volaklis, M. Halle, B. Thorand, A. Peters, K. H. Ladwig, H. Schulz, W. Koenig, C. Meisinger (2016) Handgrip strength is inversely and independently associated with multimorbidity among older women: Results from the KORA-Age study, European Journal of Internal Medicine 31, doi:10.1016/j.ejim.2016.04.001

I. D. Efstathiou, I. P. Mavrou, K. E. Grigoriadis (2016) Correlation Between Maximum Inspiratory Pressure and Hand-Grip Force in Healthy Young and Middle-Age Individuals, Respiratory Care 61(7), doi:10.4187/respcare.04319

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Richard M. Dodds, Holly E. Syddall, Rachel Cooper, Diana Kuh, Cyrus Cooper, Avan Aihie Sayer (2016) Global variation in grip strength: A systematic review and meta-analysis of normative data, Age and Ageing 45(2), doi:10.1093/ageing/afv192

Molly Eckman, Christopher Gigliotti, Staci Sutermaster, Peter J. Butler, Khanjan Mehta (2016) Using handgrip strength to screen for diabetes in developing countries, Journal of Medical Engineering and Technology 40(1), doi:10.3109/03091902.2015.1112855

Mark D. Peterson, Ryan McGrath, Peng Zhang, Kyriakos S. Markides, Soham Al Snih, Rebeca Wong (2016) Muscle Weakness Is Associated With Diabetes in Older Mexicans: The Mexican Health and Aging Study, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 17(10), doi:10.1016/j.jamda.2016.06.007

Joule J. Li, Gary A. Wittert, Andrew Vincent, Evan Atlantis, Zumin Shi, Sarah L. Appleton, Catherine L. Hill, Alicia J. Jenkins, Andrzej S. Januszewski, Robert J. Adams (2016) Muscle grip strength predicts incident type 2 diabetes: Population-based cohort study, Metabolism 65(6), p. 883-892, url, doi:10.1016/j.metabol.2016.03.011

Valéria Teresa Saraiva Lino, Nádia Cristina Pinheiro Rodrigues, Gisele O'Dwyer, Mônica Kramer De Noronha Andrade, Inês Echenique Mattos, Margareth Crisóstomo Portela (2016) Handgrip strength and factors associated in poor elderly assisted at a primary care unit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, PLoS ONE 11(11), doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0166373

Marjan Arvandi, Barbara Strasser, Christa Meisinger, Konstantinos Volaklis, Raffaella Matteucci Gothe, Uwe Siebert, Karl Heinz Ladwig, Eva Grill, Alexander Horsch, Michael Laxy, Annette Peters, Barbara Thorand (2016) Gender differences in the association between grip strength and mortality in older adults: results from the KORA-age study, BMC Geriatrics 16(1), doi:10.1186/s12877-016-0381-4

Davis A. Forman, Julianne Baarbé, Julian Daligadu, Bernadette Murphy, Michael W.R. Holmes (2016) The effects of upper limb posture and a sub-maximal gripping task on corticospinal excitability to muscles of the forearm, Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology 27, p. 95-101, Elsevier Ltd, pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.jelekin.2016.02.005

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Cácia Mendes Matos, Luciana Ferreira Silva, Ludmilla Dias Santana, Larissa S. Santos, Bruno M. Protásio, Mateus Teixeira Rocha, Vanessa Lima Ferreira, Matheus Freitas Azevedo, Márcia Tereza Silva Martins, Gildete Barreto Lopes, Antonio Alberto Lopes (2014) Handgrip strength at baseline and mortality risk in a cohort of women and men on hemodialysis: A 4-year study, Journal of Renal Nutrition 24(3), p. 157-162, url, doi:10.1053/j.jrn.2013.12.005

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