title: Relationship between grip strength and hand bone mineral density in healthy adults.
abstract: The aim of this study was to assess site-specific relationship of hand bone mineral density (BMD) with hand size, pinch and grip strength in healthy people aged 19-50 years. A total of 143 healthy volunteers participated in the study (mean age: 34 years). One hundred-six were premenopausal women (mean age: 34 years) and 37 were men (mean age: 34 years). Grip and pinch strength was measured by a Jamar dynamometer (Jamar, Irvington, NY). Second, third and fourth middle phalanx BMD were measured on a MetriScan densitometer (Hayward, CA) and mean value of these three phalanxes were used in the analysis. There was not a significant correlation between hand BMD and grip, pinch strength or hand size in premenopausal women. A significant correlation between hand BMD and grip strength was found in men (right hand; r=0.44, p=0.007, left hand; r=0.33, p=0.05). Hand size was not correlated with hand BMD both in men and in women. The short-term precision for RA was estimated as 0.44%. This is the first report of a site-specific relationship of BMD measured by radiographic absorptiometry with hand size, pinch and grip strength in healthy men and premenopausal women. Our results revealed that there is a moderate correlation between hand-grip strength and hand BMD in men. Hand size does not predict hand BMD both in men and women. Radiographic absorptiometry is a practical and reproducible method to detect bone mineral density of hands and may be a valuable screening tool for osteoporosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Firat University, Faculty of Medicine, Elazig, Turkey. drarzukaya@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Arzu
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kaya
authors.forename: Salih
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ozgocmen
authors.forename: Ozge
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ardicoglu
authors.forename: Ayhan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kamanli
authors.forename: Huseyin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gudul
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015519:Bone Density; D005260:Female; D006225:Hand / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D018737:Hand Strength; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017697:Premenopause; D013223:Statistics as Topic