Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To determine the quantitative comparison of handgrip strength
between cardiac patients and age matched healthy controls using a handheld
dynamometer.
METHODS: This quantitative comparison cross-sectional study was
th conducted at University of Lahore Teaching Hospital, Lahore from 17 ,
th October 2017 to 5 February 2018. Twenty cardiac and twenty age matched
healthy participants were selected using consecutive (non-probability) sampling
technique. After approval from ethical committee, data was collected using
questionnaire. Measurements were taken of grip strength of both hands by
using Jammer Dynamometer. This method was repeated three times in order to
obtain mean value of both hands.
RESULTS: In this study 40 subjects were studied with mean age of the
participants as 62.08±7.63years. Among them 23(57.5%) were male and
17(42.5%) were female. Mean age of males were 65±7.37years whereas mean
age of females were 64.11±7.75years. Out of twenty cardiac patients, 12(60%)
male and 5 (25%) female were suffering from myocardial infarction, 3(15%)
female had angina. Twenty participants of age-matched healthy individual group
included 11 (55%) males and 9 (45%) females. In quantitative comparison of
the dominant handgrip strength of cardiac patients (54.28 ± 27.75) and age
matched healthy control (74.78±30.33) there was noteworthy difference in
mean values of both groups with significant p-value of 0.032 whereas in the
strength of non-dominant hand grip in cardiac patients (54.11±26.46) and age
matched healthy control (71.03±29.25), no significant difference was
recorded.
CONCLUSION: Grip strength of dominant hand is less in cardiac patients as
compared to healthy normal individual with significant relationship whereas
there is no significant difference among non-dominant hand strength in both
groups.
Muhammad Abubakar Siddique, Muhammad Waqar Afzal, Ashfaq Ahmad, Syed Amir Gilani, Muhammad Arslan Saleemi. (2018) QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON OF HANDGRIPSTRENGTH BETWEEN CARDIAC PATIENTSAND AGE MATCHED HEALTHY CONTROLSUSING A HANDHELD DYNAMOMETER, KHYBER MEDICAL UNIVERSITY JOURNAL, Volume 10, Issue 4.
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