Association between muscular strength and mortality in men: prospective cohort study

To examine prospectively the association between muscular strength and mortality from all causes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer in men.Prospective cohort study.Aerobics centre longitudinal study.8762 men aged 20-80.All cause mortality up to 31 December 2003; muscular strength, quantified by combining one repetition maximal measures for leg and bench presses and further categorised as age specific thirds of the combined strength variable;...