The association of grip strength with health outcomes does not differ if grip strength is used in absolute or relative terms: a prospective cohort study.
Age Ageing
; 48(5): 684-691, 2019 09 01.
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| ID: mdl-31204772
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
higher grip strength is associated with better health outcomes. The optimal way to report grip strength (i.e. absolute vs. relative) for prediction, however, remains to be established.METHODS:
in participants (aged 37-73 at baseline) from the UK Biobank, we examined the associations of grip strength, expressed in absolute terms (kilograms) and relative to anthropometric variables, with mortality and disease incidence, after exclusion of the first 2 years of follow-up, and compared risk predictions scores of handgrip strength when differentially expressed.RESULTS:
of the 356 721 participants included in the analysis 6,234 died (1.7%) and 4,523 developed CVD (1.3%) over a mean follow-up of 5.0 years (ranging from 3.3 to 7.8) for mortality and 4.1 years (ranging from 2.4 to 7.0) for disease incidence data. As expected, baseline higher grip strength was associated with lower risk of all-cause and cause specific mortality and incidence. These associations did not meaningfully differ when grip-strength was expressed in absolute terms, vs. relative to height, weight, fat-free mass, BMI, fat-free mass index and fat-free mass, or as z-scores. Similarly the different ways of expressing grip strength had little effect on the ability of grip strength to improve risk prediction, based on C-index change, of an office-based risk score.CONCLUSIONS:
the ability of grip strength to predict mortality is not altered by changing how it is expressed.Palavras-chave
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Assunto principal:
Doenças Respiratórias
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Doenças Cardiovasculares
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Nível de Saúde
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Medição de Risco
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Força da Mão
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Neoplasias
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
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Etiology_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Age Ageing
Ano de publicação:
2019
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Reino Unido