Associations Between Diabetes and Both Cardiovascular Disease and All-Cause Mortality Are Modified by Grip Strength: Evidence From UK Biobank, a Prospective Population-Based Cohort Study
Author(s) -
Carlos CelisMorales,
Fanny PetermannRocha,
Hui Li,
Donald M. Lyall,
Stamatina Iliodromiti,
J. B. McLaren,
Jana Anderson,
Paul Welsh,
Daniel Mackay,
Jill P. Pell,
Naveed Sattar,
Jason M. R. Gill,
Stuart R. Gray
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
diabetes care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.636
H-Index - 363
eISSN - 1935-5548
pISSN - 0149-5992
DOI - 10.2337/dc17-0921
Subject(s) - medicine , grip strength , hazard ratio , diabetes mellitus , prospective cohort study , cohort study , incidence (geometry) , proportional hazards model , cohort , population , physical therapy , environmental health , confidence interval , endocrinology , physics , optics
Grip strength and diabetes are predictors of mortality and cardiovascular disease (CVD), but whether these risk factors interact to predispose to adverse health outcomes is unknown. This study determined the interactions between diabetes and grip strength and their association with health outcomes.
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