PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

Enquiry into professional practice

Introduction2

About The Authors3

About Articles3

Context and Topic of the Article4

Discussion4

Purpose of the Article4

Readership5

Explicit Thesis5

Material of Work5

Style and Language of the Articles6

Medical Innovations6

Muscle strength and physical inactivity7

Appraisal of Work8

Major Results10

Researchers' investigations and findings11

Results from Articles12

Common points raised in these articles in an efficient manner13

Areas for Improvements14

Common Recommendations in Articles14

Get more sleep15

Manage stress16

Conclusions from Articles16

Limitations in these Articles16

Further points to be raised18

Conclusion18

References20

Enquiry into professional practice

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to critically appraise the two articles “Association between muscular strength and mortality in men: prospective cohort study” and “Muscular strength in male adolescents and premature death: cohort study of one million participants”. This paper aims to target certain key points in these two articles related to muscular strength of men and mortality. Today, low muscular strengths in men are bringing mortality at low age and, it is important to recognize it at early stages. Therefore, this report is essential in highlighting important points related to low muscular strengths and mortality.

Swedish researchers who followed more than a million adolescents mainly include boys for 24 years and found that those who had low muscle strength were more likely to have premature death than other volunteers. The research, published in the British Medical Journal on November 20, was conducted by experts from various institutions such as the University Of Granada, Spain, and the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden (Kodama et al, 2009, pp. 2024-35). The respondents were aged between 16 and 19 when the study began (Ruiz et al, 2009, pp. 349). Throughout the analysis, 26,145 men died. The main causes of death were accidental injury, followed by suicide, cancer, heart diseases and strokes. Even taking into account other risk factors, the link between muscle strength and life expectancy remained questionable. All went through a battery of exercises to assess muscle strength (Gale et al, 2002, pp. 332-338). The results show that men who were classified as having muscle strength showed an above-average risk between 20 and 35% lower premature mortality due to any cause Williams et al, 2004, pp. 571-587). They also had a 65% lower risk of being diagnosed with psychiatric illnesses such as; schizophrenia or depression.

About The Authors

Jonatan R Ruiz, Xuemei Sui, Felipe Lobelo are research associates, James R Morrow is Jr. professor, Allen W Jackson is a professor and Michael Sjöström is an associate professor.

All these research associates and professors are fond of research in power of muscles and their effects on mortality. These researchers give their time on researches in their universities for the sake of humanity. Their researches are valuable and give profound knowledge of the topics they cover.

About Articles

These articles have strong analysis regarding muscular strengths and mortality especially in male adolescents. These articles are covering several general aspects of mortality due to low muscles strength in men. Articles are very important to discuss several issues regarding low muscles strength, causes of low strength and after effects of these issues. These articles are important in discussing the power of muscles is a reflection of the physical fitness of ...