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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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The relationship between serum IGF-1, handgrip strength, physical performance and falls in elderly men and women

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TL;DR: The role of IGF-1 on muscle function and clinical implications of this relationship, i.e., interm of risk of falls, in community dwelling elderly, is addressed.
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Impact of Sarcopenia and Bone Mineral Density on Implant Failure after Dorsal Instrumentation in Patients with Osteoporotic Vertebral Fractures

TL;DR: Measureting the SMA and BMD using an axial CT of the lumbar spine might help to prevent an IF in spinal fusion surgery via early detection and treatment of sarcopenia and osteoporosis.
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Prevalence and associated factors of diabetic retinopathy in a Russian Population. The Ural Eye and Medical Study

TL;DR: In this urban and rural Russian population aged 40+ years, DR prevalence was relatively low, showed an inverted U-shaped association with age, and in a cross-sectional study design it was associated with shorter axial length and higher estimated cerebrospinal fluid pressure.
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Handgrip strength weakness and asymmetry together are associated with cardiovascular outcomes in older outpatients: A prospective cohort study

TL;DR: The aim of this study was to investigate the association of HGS weakness and asymmetry on cardiovascular outcomes in older outpatients and the implications for the comprehensive geriatric assessment.
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Association of handgrip strength with all-cause mortality: a nationally longitudinal cohort study in China.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the association between handgrip strength and all-cause mortality among Chinese middle-aged and older people based on data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS).
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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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