Open AccessLosing One's Grip: A Bivariate Growth Curve Model of Grip Strength and Nonverbal Reasoning From Age 79 to 87 Years in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921
Author(s) -
Ian J. Deary,
Wendy Johnson,
Alan J. Gow,
Alison Pattie,
Caroline Brett,
Timothy C. Bates,
J. M. Starr
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the journals of gerontology series b
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1758-5368
pISSN - 1079-5014
DOI - 10.1093/geronb/gbr059
Subject(s) - grip strength , bivariate analysis , psychology , nonverbal communication , cohort , developmental psychology , demography , medicine , statistics , physical therapy , mathematics , sociology
Grip strength and reasoning are associated in old age. This is one of the few longitudinal studies addressing whether aging of one causes decline in the other or whether they share causal influences.
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