Handgrip strength and work limitations: A prospective cohort study of 70,820 adults aged 50 and older

Morera, Álvaro ; Calatayud, Joaquín ; Casaña, José ; Núñez-Cortés, Rodrigo ; Andersen, Lars L. ; López-Bueno, Rubén

Resumen: The purpose of the study was to investigate the association between handgrip strength and the incidence of work limitations in European adults aged 50 and older. We conducted a prospective cohort study among adults aged 50 and older from 27 European countries and Israel. Data were collected from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) waves 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7. Handgrip strength was measured using a hand dynamometer (Smedley, S Dynamometer, TTM) and participants replied to questions about work limitations. Cox regression was conducted for statistical analyses. A total of 70,820 older adults (mean age 61 ± 7.7 years; 54.3 % women) were followed during a mean of 3.8 ± 2.9 years. The fully adjusted model showed that participants with low handgrip strength (<16 kg in women and <27 kg in men) had a significantly higher risk of work limitations compared with participants with normal values of handgrip strength (hazard ratio: 1.36; 95 % confidence interval: 1.28–1.44). Kaplan-Meier trajectories revealed that the survival probability to experience work limitations in the normal handgrip category was 20 % lower than in the low handgrip category in most of the follow-up period. We identified low level of handgrip strength as a risk factor for work limitations in adults aged 50 years or older. This could be used as an accessible measure to screen workers at risk of developing work limitations.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2023.107798

Año: 2023

Publicado en: Maturitas 177 (2023), 107798 [7 pp.]
ISSN: 0378-5122

Factor impacto JCR: 3.9 (2023)

Categ. JCR: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY rank: 15 / 136 = 0.11 (2023) - Q1 - T1
Categ. JCR: GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY rank: 24 / 74 = 0.324 (2023) - Q2 - T1

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 9.1 - Obstetrics and Gynecology (Q1) - Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (Q1)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 1.28 - Obstetrics and Gynecology (Q1) - Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) (Q1)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP6/28812/EU/Employment and health at 50+: a life history approach to european welfare state interventions/SHARELIFE
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP6/28857/EU/Toolbox for Improving the Comparability of Cross-National Survey Data with Applications to SHARE/COMPARE
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP6/62193/EU/Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe: Integrating Activities to Access the Time Dimension and to Enlarge the Cross-national Dimension/SHARE-I3
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/211909/EU/Upgrading the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe – preparatory phase/SHARE-PREP
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/227822/EU/Longitudinal Enhancement and Access imProvement of the SHARE infrastructure/SHARE_LEAP
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/261982/EU/Multinational Advancement of Research Infrastructures on Ageing/SHARE_M4
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/283646/EU/Data Service Infrastructure for the Social Sciences and Humanities/DASISH
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/HS/QLK6-CT-2001-00360/EU/Survey on health, ageing and retirement in europe (SHARE)/SHARE
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/654221/EU/Synergies for Europe's Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences/SERISS
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/676536/EU/Achieving world-class standards in all SHARE countries/SHARE-DEV3
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/823782/EU/Social Sciences & Humanities Open Cloud/SSHOC
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/870628/EU/Cohesion in further developing and innovating SHARE across all 28 member countries/SHARE-COHESION

Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)