Acute changes in handgrip strength, lung function and health-related quality of life following cardiac surgery

• Nnamdi Mgbemena ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nnamdi.mgbemena@my.jcu.edu.au

  Affiliations Department of Physiotherapy, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, Australian Institute of Tropical Health & Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5787-8824

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• Anne Jones,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Physiotherapy, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, Australian Institute of Tropical Health & Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

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• Pankaj Saxena,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Townsville University Hospital, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, Department of Surgery, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

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• Nicholas Ang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Townsville University Hospital, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

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• Siva Senthuran,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Townsville University Hospital, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3767-4482

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• Anthony Leicht

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Australian Institute of Tropical Health & Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, Department of Sports and Exercise Science, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0537-5392

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