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Prognostic value of grip strength: findings from the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study

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This study suggests that measurement of grip strength is a simple, inexpensive risk-stratifying method for all-cause death, cardiovascular death, and cardiovascular disease.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2015-07-18. It has received 1184 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Grip strength & Hand strength.

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Association Between Purpose in Life and Objective Measures of Physical Function in Older Adults.

TL;DR: A sense of purpose in life, a modifiable factor, may play an important role in maintaining physical function among older adults and was prospectively associated with a decreased risk of developing weak grip strength and slow walking speed.
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Low muscle mass and strength in pediatrics patients: Why should we care?

TL;DR: Although further research is needed to define normative data and cut points for the low muscle mass and strength phenotype, the use of such non-invasive medical monitoring is a promising strategy to identify early abnormalities and prevent low Muscle mass in adulthood.
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Handgrip Strength in Old and Very Old Adults: Mood, Cognition, Function, and Mortality

TL;DR: To determine the trajectory of handgrip strength (HGS) from age 70 to 90 and its association with mood, cognition, functional status, and mortality, a probabilistic model is constructed.
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Physical Exercise in the Oldest Old.

TL;DR: Lifetime physical exercise can help to attenuate the loss of many of the properties affected by aging, especially when the latter is accompanied by an inactive lifestyle and benefits can also be obtained in frail individuals who start exercising at an advanced age.
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A Proportional Hazards Model for the Subdistribution of a Competing Risk

TL;DR: This article proposes methods for combining estimates of the cause-specific hazard functions under the proportional hazards formulation, but these methods do not allow the analyst to directly assess the effect of a covariate on the marginal probability function.
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Cardiorespiratory Fitness as a Quantitative Predictor of All-Cause Mortality and Cardiovascular Events in Healthy Men and Women: A Meta-analysis

TL;DR: In this article, a systematic literature search was conducted for observational cohort studies using MEDLINE (1966 to December 31, 2008) and EMBASE (1980 to December 30, 2008), which reported associations of baseline cardiorespiratory fitness with CHD events, CVD events, or all-cause mortality in healthy participants.
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A review of the measurement of grip strength in clinical and epidemiological studies: towards a standardised approach

TL;DR: A standardised method of measuring grip strength would enable more consistent measurement of grip strength and better assessment of sarcopenia.
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