Associations of grip strength with cardiovascular, respiratory, and cancer outcomes and all cause mortality: prospective cohort study of half a million UK Biobank participants

Celis-Morales, Carlos A; Welsh, Paul; Lyall, Donald M; Steell, Lewis; Petermann, Fanny; Anderson, Jana; Iliodromiti, Stamatina; Sillars, Anne; Graham, Nicholas; Mackay, Daniel F; Pell, Jill P; Gill, Jason M R; Sattar, Naveed; Gray, Stuart R

doi:10.1136/bmj.k1651

Associations of grip strength with cardiovascular, respiratory, and cancer outcomes and all cause mortality: prospective cohort study of half a million UK Biobank participants

Objective To investigate the association of grip strength with disease specific incidence and mortality and whether grip strength enhances the prediction ability of an established office based risk score. Design Prospective population based study. Setting UK Biobank. Participants 502 293 particip…