Anthropometry based prediction of dominant hand grip strength in Indian office going females

Abstract

Background: Physical strength can be measured by means of hand grip strength. It is of great use as a functional index of nutritional status. Aims and Objectives: Association of hand grip strength with other variables is studied in order to predict the strength outcomes and to study the effect of factors that can influence hand grip strength performance. Materials and Methods: In the present study the correlations of dominant hand grip strength and anthropometric and body composition variables namely, height, weight, forearm length, arm length, hand breadth, body mass index (BMI), and fat mass in randomly selected 375 unrelated, normal, healthy Indian office going females of age 20-60 years with mean height and weight of 154.12 ± 5.94 cm and 59.86 ± 10.94 kg respectively has been studied. Result: Hand grip strength of the females varied from 17 kg to 32 kg with a mean of 23.86 ± 2.74 kg. The comparison of age, height, weight, forearm length, arm length, hand breadth, and fat mass with the hand grip strength showed good correlation (p<0.01). The best fit model for handgrip prediction when age, height, weight and hand breadth for this population were considered is Hand Grip = -12.260-0.13*Age+0.16*Height+0.13* Weight+1.02*Hand breadth. Conclusion: It may be concluded that hand grip strength has close association with the anthropometric measurements and body composition variables and using these parameters grip strength can be predicted in Indian office going females.

Association of the dominant handgrip strength with the hand dimensions of adult Bangladeshi female laborers

“…But, the correlation of the dominant handgrip strength with the length of the hand and hand span were positive individually but non-significant. Similarly Rawat et al (2016) found a significant correlation was between the handgrip strength and the hand breadth rather than the hand length of 375 Indian office going females. The finding of the present research also consistent with several researches (Vivekanand et al, 2016;Sandhu et al, 2017).…”

“…After repeated workload the muscle mass is increased, which lead to increase handgrip strength. Thus, a muscle with a large crosssectional area is able to produce maximal force during working (Rawat et al, 2016). A large hand span provides a large surface area during grasping an object in a grip associated work.…”

Handgrip Strength and its Association with Anthropometric Measurements at Different Anatomical Positions of Arm among Young Individuals

“…In the current study, handgrip strength was significantly correlated to height and weight at all anatomical positions and to hand length except position 6 among young adults. Many studies have shown a correlation between height and handgrip strength among different ages [12,21,27,29]. Angest et al have studied the predictive power of demographic measurements on grip and pinch strength.…”

“…While, there was a correlation between handgrip strength and height, weight, BMI, total arm length, and upper arm circumference in the female group [17]. Also, many studies have investigated the predictor value from anthropometric variables for handgrip strength [21,22]. It has been shown that the most predictive value of handgrip strength was height followed by forearm girths [22].…”

“…Although the relationship between anthropometric measurements and handgrip strength was studied, the position of the subject when measuring the handgrip strength was not clear in many studies [23,24]. In some studies, the handgrip strength was measured at a standing position with the shoulder adducted and neutrally rotated and the elbow in full extension [16,18,21,25]. In other studies, the measurement was taken while the subject was in a sitting position with feet on the floor and the elbow was in approximately 90° flexion [12,[26][27][28][29].…”