Scientists have developed specifications that show that the body has serious problems.
If you have a firm handshake, a long and healthy life.
As the results of many scientific studies, the strength of the handshake can be one of the most accurate diagnostic tools.
The weakening of muscular strength indicates rapid aging, increase the body of various disorders leading to severe illness and premature death.
Steiber Nadia (Nadia Steiber), an employee of the Department of economic sociology University of Vienna (Austria), developed a scale of the strength of the handshake that can be used as a simple, cheap and effective method of health assessment. The results of her research published in the journal PLOS ONE.
When developing standards Steiber used a 12 thousand inhabitants of Germany of both sexes, aged from 17 to 90 years. The strength of the handshake participants in the study, the observation of which lasted from 2006 to 2014, was measured using a standard hand dynamometer. Stauber sorted the data by gender, age and height of the participants, moving in a result the reference values for all groups.
The analysis showed that the peak muscle strength in both men and women have accounted for between 30 and 40 years, after which it begins gradually to subside. When the strength of the handshake of the person are below average for his age, gender and height, it can be seen as a signal that urgently needed thorough medical examination. So, as established Stauber, in the age group 65-69 years is too weak a handshake is observed in less than 10% of men and women, while at the age of 80-90 years these results shows almost half of people.
