Association of walking pace and handgrip strength with all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality: a UK Biobank observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To quantify the association of self-reported walking pace and handgrip strength with all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality.

Methods and results

A total of 230 670 women and 190 057 men free from prevalent cancer and cardiovascular disease were included from UK Biobank. Usual walking pace was self-defined as slow, steady/average or brisk. Handgrip strength was assessed by dynamometer. Cox-proportional hazard models were adjusted for social deprivation, ethnicity, employment, medications, alcohol use, diet, physical activity, and television viewing time. Interaction terms investigated whether age, body mass index (BMI), and smoking status modified associations. Over 6.3 years, there were 8598 deaths, 1654 from cardiovascular disease and 4850 from cancer. Associa

SUBMITTER: Yates T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5837337 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature