Detection risk of heart disease through hand grip

The handle or grip weak keberelangsungan associated with short life and has a greater risk of having a heart attack or stroke, as quoted by ScienceDaily website based an international research involving nearly 140,000 adults from 17 countries whose cultural backgrounds and different economic levels. ,

Research published in The Lancet, also found that the strength of the handrails are predictors of death stronger than the systolic blood pressure, the study authors also suggest that the hand grip test can be used as a scan tool that quickly and cheaply by doctors or health professionals the other to identify high-risk patients among those who began disease "serious" such as heart failure and stroke.

Reduced muscle strength, which can be measured through the hand grip strength has been consistently linked with death, disability, and disease. But until now, the prognostic value of information about  grip strength is limited, and mainly come from certain countries high income.The current study was conducted on 139 691 adults aged between 35 and 70 years who live in the 17 countries of the study The Prospective Urban-Rural Epidemiology (PURE) for an average of four years.

The findings from the study indicate each five kilogram decrease in grip strength was associated with a 16 percent increased risk of death from any cause; 17 percent greater risk for death caused by cardiovascular disease, 17 per cent higher risk of death due to non-cardiovascular mortality, and an increase in lower risk of having a heart attack (seven percent) or stroke (nine percent).The association persisted even after considering differences in other factors that could influence mortality or heart disease such as age, education level, employment status, level of physical activity, and tobacco use and alcohol.

Weak grip associated with an average high mortality in people who have cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack and stroke as well as non-cardiovascular diseases such as cancer. This shows the strength of the muscle can predict the risk of death in people who have serious illnesses.Leaders study author Dr. Darryl Leong of Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences and McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada said, "The strength of the grip can be an easy and inexpensive tests to assess a person's risk of death and cardiovascular disease. Further research is needed to determine whether efforts to improve muscle strength can reduce a person's risk of death and cardiovascular disease. "

Wrote in a commentary link, Professor Avan Aihie Sayer (University of Southampton, Southampton, UK), and Professor Thomas Kirkwood (Newcastle University, Newcastle Tyne, UK) discuss whether grip strength could be a new biological marker of aging.

"This is not a new idea, but the discovery of PURE adds support. The loss of grip strength may not be dependent on a final common path for the detrimental effects of aging, but it might be a good marker of its own process of aging subject, perhaps due to the peculiarities of specific muscle diseases contribute change in muscle function.