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Age- and gender-dependent values of skeletal muscle mass in healthy children and adolescents

BACKGROUND: Skeletal muscle mass (SMM) can be extracted from whole-body scans obtained by X-ray-based dual-photon absorptiometry (DXA). There is a need to establish expected age-dependent values for children and adolescents. METHODS: Appendicular lean tissue mass (ALM) was extracted from whole-body...

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Autores principales: Webber, Colin E., Barr, Ronald D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3302981/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22451073
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13539-011-0042-6