Table 3
Prevalence of reduced muscular strength, by sex, grip strength cut-point and age group, household population aged 60 to 79, Canada excluding territories, 2007 to 2013 Table 3
Prevalence of reduced muscular strength, by sex, grip strength cut-point and age group, household population aged 60 to 79, Canada excluding territories, 2007 to 2013

Table 3
Prevalence of reduced muscular strength, by sex, grip strength cut-point and age group, household population aged 60 to 79, Canada excluding territories, 2007 to 2013
Table summary
This table displays the results of Prevalence of reduced muscular strength. The information is grouped by Grip strength cut-point and age group (appearing as row headers), 95% confidence interval, Men, Women and %, calculated using from and to units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Grip strength cut-point and age group	95% confidence interval		Men			Women
	95% confidence interval		%	95% confidence interval		%	95% confidence interval
	from	to	%	from	to	%	from	to
5^th percentile
60 to 79	3.3	5.8	4.3^{Note E: Use with caution}	3.0	6.1	4.4^{Note E: Use with caution}	3.0	6.5
60 to 69	3.9	6.9	4.9^{Note E: Use with caution}	3.3	7.2	5.5	4.0	7.5
70 to 79	1.5	5.1	3.1^{Note E: Use with caution}	1.6	5.9	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
10^th percentile
60 to 79	8.3	11.6	8.4	6.5	10.9	11.1	9.0	13.6
60 to 69	9.4	13.8	10.2	7.8	13.2	12.6	10.1	15.8
70 to 79	4.5	9.4	4.7^{Note E: Use with caution}^{Table 3 Note †}	2.9	7.8	8.1^{Note E: Use with caution}	5.0	12.8
Weak
60 to 79	2.1	4.3	2.7^{Note E: Use with caution}	1.7	4.1	3.4^{Note E: Use with caution}	2.2	5.4
60 to 69	1.1	2.6	1.4^{Note E: Use with caution}	0.8	2.5	2.0^{Note E: Use with caution}	1.1	3.4
70 to 79	3.8	8.7	5.2^{Note E: Use with caution}^{Table 3 Note †}	3.2	8.4	6.2^{Note E: Use with caution}^{Table 3 Note †}	3.3	11.5
Intermediate
60 to 79	13.1	17.3	12.3	9.8	15.3	17.6 ^{Table 3 Note ‡}	15.1	20.5
60 to 69	7.7	12.4	7.1^{Note E: Use with caution}	4.9	10.1	12.4 ^{Table 3 Note ‡}	9.8	15.6
70 to 79	22.2	29.3	23.2 ^{Table 3 Note †}	18.4	28.9	27.6 ^{Table 3 Note †}	23.1	32.6
2.0 SD t-score
60 to 79	4.1	6.4	4.5	3.4	6.0	5.7	4.3	7.5
60 to 69	2.2	4.4	2.2^{Note E: Use with caution}	1.4	3.5	3.9^{Note E: Use with caution}	2.6	6.1
70 to 79	6.9	12.2	9.4 ^{Table 3 Note †}	6.8	13.0	9.0^{Note E: Use with caution}^{Table 3 Note †}	5.9	13.5
1.5 SD t-score
60 to 79	16.1	20.4	18.7	15.9	21.9	17.6	15.1	20.5
60 to 69	10.3	15.5	13	9.9	16.9	12.4	9.8	15.6
70 to 79	25.5	32.7	30.7 ^{Table 3 Note †}	25.4	36.6	27.6 ^{Table 3 Note †}	23.1	32.6
... not applicable ^E use with caution F too unreliable to be published Note † significantly different from 60- to 69-year-olds (p < 0.05) Return to note † referrer Note ‡ significantly different from men (p < 0.01) Return to note ‡ referrer SD = standard deviation Source: 2007 to 2013 Canadian Health Measures Survey (combined).

Date modified:: 2017-07-12

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