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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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Hisar Urban Geographical Observational Cohort Study [HUGOCS] - Aims and Objectives, Methodology, Future Plans

TL;DR: Usage of mobile phone, physiotherapists to modify the behavior of subjects and its effect on development and prognosis of CVD risk factors will be studied future.
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Modernising grip dynamometry: Inter-instrument reliability between GripAble and Jamar

TL;DR: GripAble as discussed by the authors is a mobile hand grip device for the assessment of maximum grip strength (MGS) using an inter-instrument reliability test against the widely used Jamar PLUS+ dynamometer.
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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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