 The Northwest Adelaide Health Study is a longitudinal cohort study that aimed to describe normative data for hand-grip strength in a community-based Australian population. The sample was randomly selected and recruited by telephone interview, with 3,206 participants returning to the clinic during the second stage. After excluding participants with hand pain and arthritis, 1,366 men and 1,312 women provided hand-grip strength measurements. The study population was relatively young, with 41.5% under 40 years old, and their mean BMI was 28.1 kilograms per square meter, SD 5.5. Higher hand-grip strength was weakly related to higher BMI in younger participants, but inversely related to higher BMI in older participants. Australian norms from this sample had amongst the lowest of the internationally published norms, except those from underweight populations. The age and gender grip strength values are lower in younger adults than those reported in international literature. This article was authored by Taylor & W, Gil Tiffany K, Massey Westrop, Nicola M, and others. We are article.tv. Links in the description below.