TY  - JOUR
AU  - Huemer, Marie-Theres
AU  - Kluttig, Alexander
AU  - Fischer, Beate
AU  - Ahrens, Wolfgang
AU  - Castell, Stefanie
AU  - Ebert, Nina
AU  - Gastell, Sylvia
AU  - Jöckel, Karl-Heinz
AU  - Kaaks, Rudolf
AU  - Karch, André
AU  - Keil, Thomas
AU  - Kemmling, Yvonne
AU  - Krist, Lilian
AU  - Leitzmann, Michael
AU  - Lieb, Wolfgang
AU  - Meinke-Franze, Claudia
AU  - Michels, Karin B
AU  - Mikolajczyk, Rafael
AU  - Moreno Velásquez, Ilais
AU  - Pischon, Tobias
AU  - Schipf, Sabine
AU  - Schmidt, Börge
AU  - Schöttker, Ben
AU  - Schulze, Matthias B
AU  - Stocker, Hannah
AU  - Teismann, Henning
AU  - Wirkner, Kerstin
AU  - Drey, Michael
AU  - Peters, Annette
AU  - Thorand, Barbara
TI  - Grip strength values and cut-off points based on over 200,000 adults of the German National Cohort - a comparison to the EWGSOP2 cut-off points.
JO  - Age & ageing
VL  - 52
IS  - 1
SN  - 0002-0729
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
M1  - DKFZ-2023-00200
SP  - afac324
PY  - 2023
AB  - The European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP) updated in 2018 the cut-off points for low grip strength to assess sarcopenia based on pooled data from 12 British studies.Comparison of the EWGSOP2 cut-off points for low grip strength to those derived from a large German sample.We assessed the grip strength distribution across age and derived low grip strength cut-off points for men and women (peak mean -2.5 × SD) based on 200,389 German National Cohort (NAKO) participants aged 19-75 years. In 1,012 Cooperative Health Research in the Region of Augsburg (KORA)-Age participants aged 65-93 years, we calculated the age-standardised prevalence of low grip strength and time-dependent sensitivity and specificity for all-cause mortality.Grip strength increased in the third and fourth decade of life and declined afterwards. Calculated cut-off points for low grip strength were 29 kg for men and 18 kg for women. In KORA-Age, the age-standardised prevalence of low grip strength was 1.5× higher for NAKO-derived (17.7
KW  - European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP) (Other)
KW  - cut-off points (Other)
KW  - grip strength (Other)
KW  - mortality (Other)
KW  - probable sarcopenia (Other)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:36702514
DO  - DOI:10.1093/ageing/afac324
UR  - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/212515
ER  -