Grip strength, body composition, and mortality.

By C. Gale, C. Martyn, Chris Cooper, A. Sayer. International Journal of Epidemiology, 2007

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Hand Grip Strength: age and gender stratified normative data in a population-based study (2011, background): “Longitudinal studies suggest that poor grip strength is predictive of increased mortality from cardiovascular disease and from cancer in men, even when factors of muscle mass and body mass index are adjusted for [11,12].”
Clinical definition of sarcopenia. (2014, background): “The impact of sarcopenia on older people is far reaching; its substantial tools are measured in terms of morbidity, disability, high costs of health care and mortality (16-20).”
Sarcopenia: European consensus on definition and diagnosis (2010, background): “The impact of sarcopenia on older people is far reaching; its substantial tolls are measured in terms of morbidity [73], disability [67], high costs of health care [74] and mortality [75].”
Height and Earnings: The Role of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills (2014, methodology): “Measuring handgrip strength is a rather cheap and simple procedure that correlates with the muscle strength of other parts of the body; it is therefore a common method for assessing overall muscle strength (for example, Gale et al. 2007).19 20 17.”
Hand grip strength: outcome predictor and marker of nutritional status. (2011, background): “65) in women Gale et al.(52) 800 Men and women 65 years Predictive of mortality within 24 years of follow-up only in men”