Handgrip Strength Asymmetry and Weakness May Accelerate Time to Mortality in Aging Americans

Handgrip Strength Asymmetry and Weakness May Accelerate Time to Mortality in Aging Americans

Assessing handgrip strength (HGS) asymmetry may provide insights into HGS as a prognostic assessment of strength capacity and vitality. This study sought to determine the associations of HGS asymmetry and weakness on time to mortality in aging Americans. Longitudinal panel. Secondary analyses of dat...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2020-12, Vol.21 (12), p.2003-2007.e1
Hauptverfasser: McGrath, Ryan, Tomkinson, Grant R., LaRoche, Dain P., Vincent, Brenda M., Bond, Colin W., Hackney, Kyle J.
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Sprache:eng
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Death
frailty
geriatric assessment
muscle strength
muscle strength dynamometer
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Zusammenfassung:Assessing handgrip strength (HGS) asymmetry may provide insights into HGS as a prognostic assessment of strength capacity and vitality. This study sought to determine the associations of HGS asymmetry and weakness on time to mortality in aging Americans. Longitudinal panel. Secondary analyses of data from participants aged ≥50 years from the 2006‒2014 waves of the Health and Retirement Study. The analytic sample included 19,325 Americans who identified hand dominance and had measures of HGS for both hands in a single wave. A handgrip dynamometer was used to measure HGS. Men and women who were considered weak had HGS
ISSN:1525-8610
1538-9375
DOI:10.1016/j.jamda.2020.04.030