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Reference ranges of handgrip strength from 125,462 healthy adults in 21 countries: a prospective urban rural epidemiologic (PURE) study

BACKGROUND: The measurement of handgrip strength (HGS) has prognostic value with respect to all‐cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality and cardiovascular disease, and is an important part of the evaluation of frailty. Published reference ranges for HGS are mostly derived from Caucasian population...

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Autores principales: Leong, Darryl P., Teo, Koon K., Rangarajan, Sumathy, Kutty, V. Raman, Lanas, Fernando, Hui, Chen, Quanyong, Xiang, Zhenzhen, Qian, Jinhua, Tang, Noorhassim, Ismail, AlHabib, Khalid F, Moss, Sarah J., Rosengren, Annika, Akalin, Ayse Arzu, Rahman, Omar, Chifamba, Jephat, Orlandini, Andrés, Kumar, Rajesh, Yeates, Karen, Gupta, Rajeev, Yusufali, Afzalhussein, Dans, Antonio, Avezum, Álvaro, Lopez‐Jaramillo, Patricio, Poirier, Paul, Heidari, Hosein, Zatonska, Katarzyna, Iqbal, Romaina, Khatib, Rasha, Yusuf, Salim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4833755/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27104109
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcsm.12112