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Aging is associated with sarcopenia (low muscle mass) and dynapenia (low muscle strength) leading to disability and mortality. Widely used previous cut‐points for sarcopenia were established from dated, small, or… Click to show full abstract
Aging is associated with sarcopenia (low muscle mass) and dynapenia (low muscle strength) leading to disability and mortality. Widely used previous cut‐points for sarcopenia were established from dated, small, or pooled cohorts. We aimed to identify cut‐points of low strength as a determinant of impaired physical performance and cut‐points of low appendicular lean mass (ALM) as a predictor of low strength in a single, large, and contemporary cohort of community‐dwelling older adults and compare these criteria with others.
Journal Title: Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle
Year Published: 2019
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