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Objectives: Determine if grip strength and gait speed could predict 2-year mortality. Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study. A total of 311 outpatients in a military hospital were included in the study. Measurements: Grip strength, gait speed, sociodemographic variables, disability, polypharmacy, hospitalizations, falls, body mass index, and 2-year mortality were noted. Bivariate analyses were used to examine the distribution of covariates for subjects by mortality status. Cox regression analysis was used to estimate the hazard ratios as a function of handgrip strength and gait speed. Results: Adequate grip strength is statisti- cally associated with 13% lower risk of mortality. Similarly, slower gait speed is associated with a 15% increase in the risk of mor- tality with models including demographic variables and medical conditions. Conclusions: These findings are helpful to describe and analyze mortality risk in the elderly and contribute knowledge about gait speed and grip strength in veterans, in addition, to increased data about frailty’s physical components and mortality, and health-care systems.

Palabras clave: Frailty mortality latin America gait speed grip strength.

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Vol. 3 Núm.2. Julio-Diciembre 2017 Pags. 43-47 J Lat Am Geriatric Med 2017; 3(2)