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Association between Handgrip Strength, Skinfold Thickness, and Trunk Strength among University Students

Objectives: The main goal was to explore the relationship between hand grip strength (HGS), the thickness of the skinfold at multiple sites, and the trunk flexor (TF) and extensor (TE) muscle strength among healthy participants. Methods: We employed a cross-sectional design and randomly recruited 40...

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Autores principales: Dixit, Snehil, Gular, Kumar, Gautam, Ajay Prashad, Reddy, Ravi Shankar, Ahmad, Irshad, Tedla, Jaya Shanker, Taneja, Vani
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10000733/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36900048
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13050904
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author Dixit, Snehil
Gular, Kumar
Gautam, Ajay Prashad
Reddy, Ravi Shankar
Ahmad, Irshad
Tedla, Jaya Shanker
Taneja, Vani
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Gular, Kumar
Gautam, Ajay Prashad
Reddy, Ravi Shankar
Ahmad, Irshad
Tedla, Jaya Shanker
Taneja, Vani
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description Objectives: The main goal was to explore the relationship between hand grip strength (HGS), the thickness of the skinfold at multiple sites, and the trunk flexor (TF) and extensor (TE) muscle strength among healthy participants. Methods: We employed a cross-sectional design and randomly recruited 40 participants. Ultimately, only 39 participants were included. First, measurements for demographic and anthropometric variables were carried out. After that, the evaluation of hand grip strength and skinfold was performed. Data Analysis: Descriptive statistics were used to explore the amount of interaction between the smoking and nonsmoking groups, and a repeated measures analysis of variance was employed. Furthermore, associations between dependent and independent variables were discovered through a multiple linear regression model. Results: The participants had a mean age of 21.59 ± 1.19 years. The results of the repeated measures analysis of variance validated an acceptable interaction between the trunk and hand grip strength at a significance level of p < 0.01, further emphasized by their moderate association (p < 0.05). Multiple regressions between TE, TF, the independent variables T score, height, and age were also significant (p < 0.05). Conclusions: The trunk muscle strength can be used as a health indicator for comprehensive evaluation. The present study also found a moderate relationship between hand grip strength, trunk strength, and T score.
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spelling pubmed-100007332023-03-11 Association between Handgrip Strength, Skinfold Thickness, and Trunk Strength among University Students Dixit, Snehil Gular, Kumar Gautam, Ajay Prashad Reddy, Ravi Shankar Ahmad, Irshad Tedla, Jaya Shanker Taneja, Vani Diagnostics (Basel) Article Objectives: The main goal was to explore the relationship between hand grip strength (HGS), the thickness of the skinfold at multiple sites, and the trunk flexor (TF) and extensor (TE) muscle strength among healthy participants. Methods: We employed a cross-sectional design and randomly recruited 40 participants. Ultimately, only 39 participants were included. First, measurements for demographic and anthropometric variables were carried out. After that, the evaluation of hand grip strength and skinfold was performed. Data Analysis: Descriptive statistics were used to explore the amount of interaction between the smoking and nonsmoking groups, and a repeated measures analysis of variance was employed. Furthermore, associations between dependent and independent variables were discovered through a multiple linear regression model. Results: The participants had a mean age of 21.59 ± 1.19 years. The results of the repeated measures analysis of variance validated an acceptable interaction between the trunk and hand grip strength at a significance level of p < 0.01, further emphasized by their moderate association (p < 0.05). Multiple regressions between TE, TF, the independent variables T score, height, and age were also significant (p < 0.05). Conclusions: The trunk muscle strength can be used as a health indicator for comprehensive evaluation. The present study also found a moderate relationship between hand grip strength, trunk strength, and T score. MDPI 2023-02-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10000733/ /pubmed/36900048 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13050904 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Association between Handgrip Strength, Skinfold Thickness, and Trunk Strength among University Students
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