Sex, race and age differences in muscle strength and limitations in community dwelling older adults: Data from the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS)

Germain, Cassandra M.; Vásquez, Elizabeth; Batsis, John A.; McQuoid, Douglas R.

doi:10.1016/j.archger.2016.03.007

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“…[19,26,27,29,30], our findings show that ethnicity is also a factor that influences strength in Americans during the lifespan. The differences we observed in our HGS percentiles for each ethnicity support those who suggest demographic characteristics such as ethnicity need to be considered for risk stratification related to weakness and interventions aiming to improve strength capacity [31].…”

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Absolute and Body Mass Index Normalized Handgrip Strength Percentiles by Gender, Ethnicity, and Hand Dominance in Americans

McGrath

Hackney

Ratamess

et al. 2019

Adv Geriatr Med Res

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Background: Gender and ethnicity are factors which influence strength, and hand dominance could be a critical component of handgrip strength (HGS) testing. Providing such HGS percentiles across the lifespan may help to identify weakness-related health concerns. We sought to generate growth charts and curves for HGS by gender and ethnicity in a nationallyrepresentative sample of Americans aged 6-80 years.

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confidence: 79%

Absolute and Body Mass Index Normalized Handgrip Strength Percentiles by Gender, Ethnicity, and Hand Dominance in Americans

McGrath

Hackney

Ratamess

et al. 2019

Adv Geriatr Med Res

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“…5 Using HRS data, Germain et al found that tertile-specific low muscle strength was associated with higher odds of physical and functional outcomes, although those analyses were cross-sectional. 38 In a 3-year longitudinal study by Onder et al, higher handgrip strength was found to be protective against incident ADL disability. 39 Additionally, a 4-year longitudinal study found that higher handgrip strength was associated with a reduced risk in the development of new functional difficulties, although this analysis was restricted to the oldest old.…”

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Muscle Weakness and Physical Disability in Older Americans: Longitudinal Findings from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study

Duchowny

Clarke

Peterson

2018

The Journal of nutrition, health and aging

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“…This conclusion confirmed the necessity to study neighborhood environment and health of older adults in different age groups. As proposed by Germain et al [60], ignoring the influence of age discrepancy may bring about biased and even erroneous conclusions in older adults' health and welfare-related research.…”

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Neighborhood Environment, Lifestyle, and Health of Older Adults: Comparison of Age Groups Based on Ecological Model of Aging

Zheng

Yang

2019

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Worldwide population aging is currently in acceleration, which is especially true for China. Echoing the advocacy of “active aging” and “age-friendly communities”, governments and researchers across the world are paying more attention to the impact of neighborhoods on the health of older adults. Using the Ecological Model of Aging, this study aimed to discuss the relationships between neighborhood environment, lifestyle, and health of older adults, and to compare the differences among older adults of different age groups. The results showed that landscape environment has a direct effect on the health of older adults, while leisure environment has an indirect effect through lifestyle. Both leisure environment and landscape environment directly encourage older adults to take part in outdoor activity, in which the former mainly promotes the social participation of the high-aged (aged 80+) group, while the latter merely promotes that of the middle-aged (aged 70–79) group. The positive effect of social participation on health is gradually strengthened with the increase of age. Meanwhile, outdoor activity has its greatest effect on the middle-aged (aged 70–79) group, but not the low-aged (aged 60–69) group. To effectively boost the health of older adults and promote active aging, adequate considerations should also be given to the differentiated demands of older adults of different age groups, optimization of neighborhood environment, as well as cultivation of an amicable atmosphere.

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Sex, race and age differences in muscle strength and limitations in community dwelling older adults: Data from the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS)

Cited by 46 publications

References 15 publications

Absolute and Body Mass Index Normalized Handgrip Strength Percentiles by Gender, Ethnicity, and Hand Dominance in Americans

Absolute and Body Mass Index Normalized Handgrip Strength Percentiles by Gender, Ethnicity, and Hand Dominance in Americans

Muscle Weakness and Physical Disability in Older Americans: Longitudinal Findings from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study

Neighborhood Environment, Lifestyle, and Health of Older Adults: Comparison of Age Groups Based on Ecological Model of Aging

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