Handgrip Strength and Cause‐Specific and Total Mortality in Older Disabled Women: Exploring the Mechanism

By T. Rantanen, S. Volpato, MD Luigi Ferrucci, MD Eino Heikkinen, L. Fried, Jack M. Guralnik. Journal of The American Geriatrics Society, 2003

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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].”
Hand‐Grip Dynamometry Predicts Future Outcomes in Aging Adults (2008, methodology): “Rantanen et al (2003)21 Women with rheumatoid arthritis (75): mean 54.7 yr 15 yr Mean grip strength of left and right hands (measured with modified sphygmomanometer) associated with death .”
Sarcopenia: Its assessment, etiology, pathogenesis, consequences and future perspectives (2008, background): “Grip strength is a simple estimator of total muscle strength (48) but is not useful in those with hand arthritis.”
Strength, but not muscle mass, is associated with mortality in the health, aging and body composition study cohort. (2006, background): “Previous studies have examined only men (1,2), or women (3); most have examined only grip strength, and none has adjusted for direct quantification of muscle area or lean mass as measures of sarcopenia.”