Handgrip Strength and Cause‐Specific and Total Mortality in Older Disabled Women: Exploring the Mechanism

To examine the association between muscle strength and total and cause-specific mortality and the plausible contributing factors to this association, such as presence of diseases commonly underlying mortality, inflammation, nutritional deficiency, physical inactivity, smoking, and depression.Prospective population-based cohort study with mortality surveillance over 5 years.Elderly women residing in the eastern half of Baltimore, Maryland, and...