Understanding and maintaining physical well-being is essential for high quality of life, and grip strength is a surprisingly insightful measure of overall health that can provide valuable insight.

Want to know how healthy you are? There’s one health metric experts can look to for hints about everything from your cardiovascular risks to your brain health and even your risk of dying by any cause: ...

A new analysis suggests that physical frailty serves as a robust warning sign for cognitive decline in later life.

Grip strength is a measurement of your physical health and also a biomarker for older adults. Therefore it is a prognosticator of your present fitness level and also a vital sign similar to measuring ...

Experts say gait speed, grip strength, balance, and endurance are some of the strongest predictors of long-term independence.

When was the last time you successfully opened a jar without assistance? If you’re drawing a blank, it’s time to start adding grip strength exercises to your workout routine. Grip strength is ...

Most of us are familiar with certain measurements such as blood pressure, resting pulse rate, body weight, abdominal circumference, body mass index or BMI, and even fasting blood sugar or cholesterol ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Grip strength is a measure of how tightly you can hold onto an object in your hand and how long you can ...

Hand grip strength has become a reliable indicator of health, especially in older adults. Among other associations, a new study finds that low hand grip strength was linked to osteoporosis in women ...

The cumulative (dis)advantage hypothesis predicts education differences in health to increase with age. All previous tests of this hypothesis were based on self-reported health measures. Recent ...