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What Grip Strength Can Tell You About Your Health
The Wall Street Journal is examining what grip strength reveals about overall health. Research has increasingly linked a person's handgrip strength to broader measures of muscle condition, aging and long-term health risks, and simple grip tests are sometimes used as a quick indicator of physical fitness. The piece looks at what the measurement can and cannot tell patients and doctors about wellbeing.
Why now: Growing public interest in simple, low-cost indicators of health and fitness is drawing attention to the topic.
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