Jari A Laukkanen1,2,3, Ari Voutilainen3, Sudhir Kurl3, Claudio Gil S Araujo4, Sae Young Jae5,6, Setor K Kunutsor7,8. 1. Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland. 2. Department of Medicine, Central Finland Health Care District, Jyväskylä, Finland. 3. Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland. 4. Exercise Medicine Clinic, CLINIMEX, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 5. Department of Sport Science, University of Seoul, Seoul, South Korea. 6. Graduate School of Urban Public Health, University of Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea. 7. National Institute for Health Research Bristol Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust and University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. 8. Musculoskeletal Research Unit, Translational Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, Southmead Hospital, University of Bristol, Learning & Research Building (Level 1), Bristol, UK.
Abstract
Purpose: We aimed to assess the associations of handgrip strength (HS) with cardiovascular and all-cause mortality and whether adding data on HS to cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors is associated with improvement in CVD mortality prediction.Design: Handgrip strength was assessed in a population-based sample of 861 participants aged 61-74 years at baseline. Relative HS was obtained by dividing the absolute value by body weight. Results: During a median (interquartile range) follow-up of 17.3 (12.6-18.4) years, 116 fatal coronary heart diseases (CHDs), 195 fatal CVDs and 412 all-cause mortality events occurred. On adjustment for several risk factors, the hazard ratios (95% confidence intervals (CIs)) for fatal CHD, fatal CVD and all-cause mortality were 0.59 (0.37-0.95), 0.59 (0.41-0.86) and 0.66 (0.51-0.84), respectively, comparing extreme tertiles of relative HS. Adding relative HS to a CVD mortality risk prediction model containing established risk factors did not improve discrimination or reclassification using Harrell's C-index (C-index change: 0.0034; p = .65), integrated-discrimination-improvement (0.0059; p = .20) and net-reclassification-improvement (-1.31%; p = .74); however, there was a significant difference in -2 log likelihood (p < .001).Conclusions: Relative HS is inversely associated with CHD, CVD and all-cause mortality events. Adding relative HS to conventional risk factors improves CVD risk assessment using sensitive measures of discrimination.KEY MESSAGESHandgrip strength (HS) assessment is simple, inexpensive and it takes only a few minutes to measure in clinical practice; however, its prognostic role for fatal cardiovascular outcomes on top of traditional risk factors in apparently healthy populations is uncertain.In a population-based prospective cohort study, good HS adjusted for body weight was associated with lower risk of fatal cardiovascular outcomes and the associations remained consistent across several clinically relevant subgroups.Handgrip strength may be a useful prognostic tool for fatal CHD and CVD events, in the general population.
Purpose: We aimed to assess the associations of handgrip strength (HS) with cardiovascular and all-cause mortality and whether adding data on HS to cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors is associated with improvement in CVD mortality prediction.Design: Handgrip strength was assessed in a population-based sample of 861 participants aged 61-74 years at baseline. Relative HS was obtained by dividing the absolute value by body weight. Results: During a median (interquartile range) follow-up of 17.3 (12.6-18.4) years, 116 fatal coronary heart diseases (CHDs), 195 fatal CVDs and 412 all-cause mortality events occurred. On adjustment for several risk factors, the hazard ratios (95% confidence intervals (CIs)) for fatal CHD, fatal CVD and all-cause mortality were 0.59 (0.37-0.95), 0.59 (0.41-0.86) and 0.66 (0.51-0.84), respectively, comparing extreme tertiles of relative HS. Adding relative HS to a CVD mortality risk prediction model containing established risk factors did not improve discrimination or reclassification using Harrell's C-index (C-index change: 0.0034; p = .65), integrated-discrimination-improvement (0.0059; p = .20) and net-reclassification-improvement (-1.31%; p = .74); however, there was a significant difference in -2 log likelihood (p < .001).Conclusions: Relative HS is inversely associated with CHD, CVD and all-cause mortality events. Adding relative HS to conventional risk factors improves CVD risk assessment using sensitive measures of discrimination.KEY MESSAGESHandgrip strength (HS) assessment is simple, inexpensive and it takes only a few minutes to measure in clinical practice; however, its prognostic role for fatal cardiovascular outcomes on top of traditional risk factors in apparently healthy populations is uncertain.In a population-based prospective cohort study, good HS adjusted for body weight was associated with lower risk of fatal cardiovascular outcomes and the associations remained consistent across several clinically relevant subgroups.Handgrip strength may be a useful prognostic tool for fatal CHD and CVD events, in the general population.
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