Grip strength across the life course: Normative data from twelve British studies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Dodds, Richard M ^a   Syddall, Holly E ^a   Cooper, Rachel ^b   Benzeval, Michaela ^c   Deary, Ian J ^d   Dennison, Elaine M ^a   Der, Geoff ^e   Gale, Catharine R ^a,d   Inskip, Hazel M ^a   Jagger, Carol ^f   Kirkwood, Thomas B ^f   Lawlor, Debbie A ^g   Robinson, Sian M ^a   Starr, John M ^d   Steptoe, Andrew ^b   Tilling, Kate ^g   Kuh, Diana ^b   Cooper, Cyrus ^a   Sayer, Avan Aihie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^f NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADULTHOOD; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DYNAMOMETER; DYNAMOMETRY; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NORMAL VALUE; POPULATION RESEARCH; SEX DIFFERENCE; SITTING; STANDING; UNITED KINGDOM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SARCOPENIA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH DYNAMOMETER; PREVALENCE; SARCOPENIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84916226702     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113637     Document Type: Article

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