date:Jan 07, 2014
ing muscle strength may well have consequences for later health; muscle strength peaks in young adulthood before declining in older age and low grip strength in adulthood has been associated with poor health outcomes including diabetes, falls and fractures, said Nicholas Harvey, Ph.D., lead researcher and senior lecturer, University of Southampton. It is likely that the greater muscle strength observed at 4 years of age in children born to mothers with higher vitamin D levels will track into adu