Trends in grip strength: Age, period, and cohort effects on grip strength in older adults from Germany, Sweden, and Spain

• Main Authors: Johannes Beller (Author), Alexander Miething (Author), Enrique Regidor (Author), Lourdes Lostao (Author), Jelena Epping (Author), Siegfried Geyer (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2019-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Grip strength is seen as an objective indicator of morbidity and disability. However, empirical knowledge about trends in grip strength remains incomplete. As trends can occur due to effects of aging, time periods and birth cohorts, we used hierarchical age-period-cohort models to estimate and disen...