Relative Hand Grip and Back Muscle Strength, but Not Mean Muscle Strength, as Risk Factors for Incident Metabolic Syndrome and Its Metabolic Components: 16 Years of Follow-Up in a Population-Based Cohort Study

Muscle strength is associated with health outcomes and can be considered an important disease predictor. There are several studies examining the relationship between hand grip (HGS) metabolic syndrome (MetS). However, no results have been reported for long term longitudinal studies. In this study, we investigated mean HGS, back muscle (BMS), relative HGS BMS, MetS. A total of 2538 non-MetS subjects aged 40–69 years (1215 women 1323 men) in Korean Genome Epidemiology Study (KoGES) Ansan cohort were followed 16 years. The relationships incident MetS (iMetS) estimated using Cox proportional hazard regression models after adjusting confounding factors. Increases standard deviation (SD) lower quartile groups BMS significantly iMetS men women. Moreover, increases SD high quintile (decreased group) delta change only. addition, components present study suggests that risk future development