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The association of grip strength from midlife onwards with all-cause and cause-specific mortality over 17 years of follow-up in the Tromsø Study

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  • Bjørn Heine Strand Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Ageing and Health, Vestfold Hospital Trust, Tønsberg, Norway Department of Geriatric Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Rachel Cooper MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, University College London (UCL), London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Astrid Bergland Oslo and Akershus University College, Oslo, Norway PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Lone Jørgensen Department of Health and Care Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway Department of Clinical Therapeutic Services, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Henrik Schirmer Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health sciences, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway Division of Cardiothoracic and Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Vegard Skirbekk Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Nina Emaus Department of Health and Care Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Bjørn Heine Strand, Department of Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Marcus Thranes gt 6, Oslo 0473, Norway; heine{at}fhi.no
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Strand BH, Cooper R, Bergland A, et al
The association of grip strength from midlife onwards with all-cause and cause-specific mortality over 17 years of follow-up in the Tromsø Study
J Epidemiol Community Health 2016;70:1214-1221.

Publication history

  • Received October 8, 2015
  • Revised April 22, 2016
  • Accepted May 7, 2016
  • First published May 26, 2016.
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November 10, 2016

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