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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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Associations among handgrip strength, dietary pattern, and physical activity level in Physical Education students.

TL;DR: HGS is a useful, simple, and objective assessment tool for monitoring the physical activity levels and dietary patterns of young subjects.
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Heritability estimates of physical performance-related phenotypes

TL;DR: The method for calculating heritability, the impact of heritability on muscular strength and endurance, and the association between heritability and athletic performance of athletes are outlined.
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Low Grip Strength As a Predictor of Recovery From Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA)

TL;DR: GS can serve as a useful indicator for assessing muscle weakness before primary THA and Clinicians should be encouraged to include GS assessment in their evaluation of patients who planned to undergo THA in order to optimize the treatment of high-risk individuals.
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The association between hand grip strength and non-exercise activity thermogenesis in patients with type 2 diabetes

TL;DR: Diabetes & Metabolism - In Press. Available online since vendredi 4 novembre 2016 as mentioned in this paper, with proof corrected by the author available online since 6 February 2016.
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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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