Your Handshake Determines Your Health Condition

A new research finds that simple handshake gesture could determine the health condition of a person like if you want to know if you have the risk for dementia and stroke. Surprisingly, the firmness in your handshake not only shows the sign of confidence, according to doctors it may be a barometer of your health too. The researchers conducted to 2,500 men and women in which they presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 64^th Annual Meeting and linked the risk of dementia and stroke to how strong their handshakes were at the beginning of the study. If you have a stronger grip it was associated with a 42% lower risk of stroke in people over age 65 compared with other study participants with flimsier grasps. What does it mean? And what’s the connection? According to Dr. Erica Camargo of the Boston Medical Center that vascular problems in the brain manifest themselves in a wide variety of ways. The suspicion is that if your grip is particularly weak, it could be a sign that your overall cardiovascular health isn’t in the best shape.